'Lion and Kangaroo' is one of Australia's great works of history, an extraordinarily rich chronicle of the nation's coming-of-age.
With sparkling wit, 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 the Great War. Painting unforgettable portraits of scores of the most fascinating participants, he traces a national character in evolution. It is impossible to comprehend contemporary Australia without this book.
