Australians All (ePub)
A History of Growing Up from the Ice Age to the Apology
(Sprache: Englisch)
'I love history because it is story, but the very best thing about this story is that it is not finished. All of us are making history every moment of our lives.' Nadia WheatleyAustralians All encompasses the history of our continent from the Ice Age to the...
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'I love history because it is story, but the very best thing about this story is that it is not finished. All of us are making history every moment of our lives.' Nadia WheatleyAustralians All encompasses the history of our continent from the Ice Age to the Apology, from the arrival of the First Fleet to the Mabo Judgement. Brief accounts of the lives of real young Australians open up this chronological narrative. Some of the subjects of the eighty mini-biographies have become nationally or even internationally famous. Others were legends in their own families and communities. Meticulously researched, beautifully written and highly readable, Australians All helps us understand who we are, and how we belong to the land we all share. It also shows us who we might be.'In Australian histories there is a particular group whose tales and presence and concerns are rarely narrated. These are the children and adolescents. They are depicted as mute sufferers of the decisions of elders (as were the children of the Depression), helpless victims of policy (the Stolen Generations) and the children of the Second World War (of whom I was one). They appear in most writing of history as mere passive accessories to what adults do. But their stories are our stories too, and their stories are our history, and Nadia Wheatley, that great writer, tells that wide-ranging story in a way so imaginative and colourful that it would attract any young person, and make young readers feel that many of their personal struggles have been faced before, by children of the past and present. Nadia has performed an essential service to history and the young.' - Thomas Keneally
Autoren-Porträt von Nadia Wheatley
Nadia Wheatley is an award-winning author whose books over thirty years reflect a commitment to issues of Reconciliation, social justice, and the conservation of the environment. Before writing fiction, the author completed a post-graduate degree in Australian history. Her publications in the field include a biography that was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Australian History Award in 2002 as well as the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2001.Nadia Wheatley's books for children include the classic picture book My Place(illustrated by Donna Rawlins), which travels backwards through the lives of the families who share a single small piece of land. Her fiction for young adults includes the historical novel, The House that was Eureka.
Ken Searle is best known for the cityscapes that he has exhibited during a forty-year career as an artist. In his book design, he draws upon the same sense of composition to take the reader on a journey through the landscape of the book, stopping along the way at illustrations in a variety of mediums.
Over the last decade, Nadia Wheatley and Ken Searle have variously written, illustrated, designed or compiled five books that express aspects of the Indigenous principles of education that they experienced while working as consultants at Papunya School (Northern Territory). These include the Papunya School Book of Country and History, which in 2002 won the New South Wales Premier's History for Young People Award, and Playground, which was shortlisted for the same award in 2012.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nadia Wheatley
- 2013, 280 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Allen & Unwin
- ISBN-10: 1741156041
- ISBN-13: 9781741156041
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2013
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