Claiming A Continent by David Day, ISBN 9780732279981

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David Day's much-lauded history of Australia, 'Claiming A Continent', won the prestigious Non-Fiction Prize at the 1998 South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. Now in its fourth edition, this study of Australian history is sure to draw new readers.

Provocative and daring, Day has established himself in the top echelon of Australian historians by not being afraid of challenging Australia's accepted historical narratives.

In 'Claiming A Continent', Day explores the events that have shaped Australia from 1788 to the present day. He places the original British conquest within the broader context of an ongoing struggle by Australians to secure their possession of the ancient continent and to hold it against future challenges.

It is a story that still continues and, in the twenty-first century, it is as relevant and as divisive as ever.

RRP: $26.99

About the Author: David Day

David Day is one of Australia's most respected historians. Apart from Claiming a Continent, which won the prestigious non-fiction award at the 1998 Adelaide Festival, he has written books on Australian-British relations during the Second World War, including Menzies and Churchill at War, The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War 1939-1942 and Reluctant Nation: Australia and the allied defeat of Japan 1942-45. He has also written a two volume history of the Australian Customs Service.

Day's most recent book, John Curtin: A Life was published by HarperCollins to great acclaim in 1999. Barry Jones described it as 'astoundingly good' and 'one of the greatest Australian biographies'. It was short-listed in 2000 for the NSW Premier's Literary Prize for Non-Fiction and won the Queensland Premier's History Prize. He is currently writing a biography of Ben Chifley, which will be published later this year by HarperCollins.

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