PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY

Cuenta la historia fascinante de cómo una colonia británica habitada por convictos y sus carceleros se convirtió en un país próspero, abierto y seguro de sí mismo. A través de los ojos de australian

Part history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. This book describes Australia''s journey through the eyes of ordinary people, from the trauma of the WW-I to the decline of the relationship with Britain, and more. Australia celebrates one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the eyes of ordinary people, Phillip Knightly describes Australia''s journey, from federation and the trauma of the First World War, the desperate poverty of the Depression, with its attendant spectres of secret armies and near civil way, the threat of invasion in the Second World War and the imagination that followed it, and the slow but steady decline of the relationship with Britain, the ''Mother Country'' as Australia forged its own unique identity.

Until this book was published in 1988, Philby was an enigma. Then a few weeks before his death he gave a number of exclusive interviews to author Philip Knightley. Fully updated throughout with new m