Great Southern Land

Oct 27, 2024 8:22 PM

Author:Frank Welsh

Great Southern Land

Australia is a dynamic multi-cultural society, viewed by many as the world's most desirable place to live. Here Frank Welsh traces Australia's intriguing and varied history to examine how this society emerged, from its ancient Aborigine tribes and earliest British convict settlements to today's modern nation - one that retains strong links with its colonial past but is increasingly independent and diverse.

While full of admiration for Australia, Welsh also exposes national myths and confronts the darker side of its history - oppression of the Aboriginal peoples and the 'White Australia' policy - and places the country in a global context, considering the changing relationship with Britain and its Asian neighbours, as well as more recent alliances with the US.

Original, provocative and entertaining, Great Southern Land provides the most comprehensive one-volume history of this endlessly fascinating nation.

Reviews

'A worthy conclusion to their investigations into secret societies ancient and modern'

—— Sunday Times

'Meticulously researched and annotated and well worth reading'

—— Oxford Times

An entertaining read

—— Literary Review

Vastly entertaining... Reading Cities is like wandering with an erudite companion through a great city in which the past rubs shoulders with the present and surprises lurk around every corner

—— Time

A superb historical account of the places in which most of either live or will live

—— Conde Nast Traveller

Extraordinary, intensely passionate and quite beautiful

—— The Manchester Evening News

A bustling, revealing and downright moving portrayal of thwarted genius

—— Attitude

Neil McKenna's book is the most important one to have been written about Wilde for many years

—— Irish Independent

McKenna’s book offers an entertaining and fascinating (sometimes jaw-dropping) insight into Victorian homosexual practices. He is outstanding

—— The Observer

A sensational new biography

—— Bent Magazine

A brilliant reconstruction of Oscar Wilde's dynamic sex life, brilliantly written and meticulously researched

—— Bent Magazine

Where this biography really excels is in recreating the fevered atmosphere of the late Victorian homosexual underground

—— Mail on Sunday

A fully convincing biography of this most intensely symbolic of Victorian lives

—— Gay Times

McKenna makes many interesting connections between Wilde’s life and his literary works

—— Mail on Sunday

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