Lion & Kangaroo

<p><strong>Winner of the Colin Roderick Awar</strong>d</p><p> </p><p><em>Lion & Kangaroo</em> is one of Australia’s great works of history a rich chronicle of the nation’s coming-of-age.</p><p> </p><p>With intelligence wisdom and wit acclaimed historian Gavin Souter captures all the milestones of Australia’s first decades from the constitutional conventions of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years that followed World War I. Painting unforgettable portraits of scores of the most fascinating participants he traces a national character in evolution.</p><p> </p><p>Profound and insightful it is impossible to comprehend contemporary Australia without first reading <em>Lion & Kangaroo</em>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Praise for <em>Lion & Kangaroo</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>‘A writer of great distinction … This book is the work of a man who can impose on the chaos of the past an order that lifts the work into the realms of art without doing violence to the events or sacrificing the standards of scholarship as defined by the academics. It is a great achievement.’ <strong>– Manning Clark</strong></p><p> </p><p>‘A superb evocation of Australian life in the years between federation and the First World War showing how imperial sentiment dominated our lives and left a vacuum in Australia’s national identity … beautifully written lucid witty and compelling.’ <strong>– Gough Whitlam</strong></p>