The First Two Hundred Years

The First Two Hundred Years is a revised and updated edition, in one volume, of The First Hundred Years and After the First Hundred Years – two of the most readable and informative books about the story of Australia since 1788.

The book provides commentary and explanation which many modern texts assume or leave to the reader. It expresses attitudes to events which need to be recorded for a new generation lacking in Australian or British background. Its great strength is the way the original writings and records of the people who have lived here are woven into the text itself.

The First Two Hundred Years is a classic account of the story of our country since white occupation.