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Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

by Peter FitzSimons
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2013

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Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times

In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it: “ a strike for liberty”.

Was this rebellion a fledgling nation’s first attempt to assert its independence under colonial rule? Or was it merely rabble-rousing by unruly miners determined not to pay their taxes.

In his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons gets into the hearts and minds of those on the battlefield, and those behind the scenes, bringing to life Australian legends on both sides of the rebellion. 

PRAISE FOR PETER FITZSIMONS

'[FitzSimons] knows how to make words race like eager sled dogs on their homeward run.' Newcastle Herald

'Meticulously researched, well-written and incredibly presented.' Weekend Notes

ISBN:
9780857981271
9780857981271
Category:
Revolutions
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
736
Dimensions (mm):
233x154x54mm
Weight:
1kg
Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, and a busy events and motivational speaker.

He is the author of over twenty-seven books, including Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, Eureka, Ned Kelly, Gallipoli and biographies of Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake‚ Kim Beazley‚ Nick Farr-Jones‚ Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales, and is one of Australia's biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last fifteen years.

Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations. He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney.

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