{"product_id":"the-making-of-australia-by-david-hill-9781742757674","title":"The Making of Australia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of Australia\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and accessible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his latest book, David Hill traces the story of our nation from its European beginnings to Federation. When James Cook landed on the east coast of Australia, the rest of the world had some idea of how empty, vast, and wild this continent was, but so little was known of it that in 1788 most people thought it was two lands. In the subsequent years, its coastline was charted, its interior opened up, and its cities, laws, and economy developed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this riveting, wide-ranging history, David Hill traces how this happened through the key figures who built this country into the thriving nation it is today—from its prescient and fair-minded first governor, Arthur Phillip, to the unpopular William Bligh, the victim of the country's first and only military coup; from the visionary builder and law-maker Lachlan Macquarie to William Wentworth, the son of a convict who secured...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46343688913132,"sku":"9781742757674","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13478423482808.jpg?v=1744003490","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-making-of-australia-by-david-hill-9781742757674","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}