The Story of Australia by Meredith Hooper

The Story of Australia

by Meredith Hooper

Illustrated by Elaine Haxton

Angus and Robertson, 1974, [First Edition], ISBN 0207127905, colour and black and white  illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers, illustrated title page, landscape hardcover with illustrated laminated boards

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on front fly leaf (see photographs)

“Australia’s story is comparatively short; but in every way it is as romantic as any history in the world.  From the first landing on Botany Bay till the present time, Meredith Hooper’s survey is a colourful, co-ordinated account of the events which have made what was once a penal colony a major participant in the modern world.  Cook, Sturt, Eyre, Caroline Chisholm, Flynn and Kingsford Smith are just a few names in a long list of pioneering men and women you will meet in this absorbing, easy-to-read text.  Strikingly illustrated by Elaine Haxton, The Story of Australia is a picture history for every junior library.”