This out of print book was bought from new and has been kept on a bookshelf ever since.

Written for Australia's bicentennial three of her leading modern writer's present their country from a personal viewpoint. each depicts a period of the continent's rich and varied history, it's events and personalities, as they experienced it themselves or theough the eyes of forebearers.

Thomas Keneally looks at the wild, mysterious land discovered by Captain Cook in 1770.

Patsy Adam-Smith describes the rise of the sheep barons.

Robyn Davidson talks about the demise of the old Australia and fears for the future.

The book is illustrated with both colour and black and white pictures.