Description
SECOND HAND BOOK
125 years ago The Age was born. From all the pages of newsprint published since then, Geoffrey Hutton and Les Tanner have selected stories, news reports, pictures and cartoons that chart the progress of Australia’s leading newspaper. Writers such as Marcus Clarke, Bertrand Russell, ‘Chinese’ Morrison, Patsy Adam-Smith and Phillip Adams are included here along with staff writers like former editor Graham Perkin, Creighton Burns, Claude Forell, Michelle Grattan and John Larkin. Cartoonists Les Tanner, Bruce Petty, Peter Nicholson, John Spooner, Arthur Horner and Ron Tandberg have helped make The Age the wittiest and most comprehensively illustrated paper in Australia in the 1970s.
The issues that have stirred Australians during a century and a quarter are here — five wars, Federation, the Great Depression, South-East Asia, and the plight of the Aborigines. From Ebenezer Syme’s staunch nationalism to the fiercely-contested issues of the past decade the collection reflects the changes in direction and tempo that have characterised The Age for the past 125 years. This is a book to browse through and to share with friends. It will provoke and amuse, but above all it will entertain.
Specifications:
Condition: Good. Some markings and creasings on the front and back covers, slightly yellowed pages.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Australia
Year: 1979
Format: Paperback
Pages: 214
ISBN: 0170057704
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