Author(s): David Day

Australian

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.