num_pages: 383
description: This book--part history, part travelogue, part memoir--tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony with only two sorts of citizens, convicts and gaolers, turned itself into a proud, prosperous and confident country, the greatest sporting nation on earth, where the citizens of its high-leisure cities enjoy a lifestyle that is the envy of the world.
language: English
title: Australia: A Biography of a Nation
titlecomplete: Australia: A Biography of a Nation
genres: Australia, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 179
publisher: Jonathan Cape