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Hardback. Bruce Bennettb & William Grono, Angus & Robertson. Author: Bruce Bennettb & William GronoBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1979Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dull spine. Tight pages. Fading on dustjacket.The history of Western Australia is told through a selection of newspaper articles, journal and diary entries, speeches, songs, prose, extracts from novels and short stories and poems. More than one hundred writers are included - Kirwan Ward, Georgiana Molloy, Randolph Stow, Mary Durack, Elizabeth Bussell, Hammond Innes, Anthony Trollope, Katherine Susannah Prichard, Jack Davis, John Hepworth and Robert Drew.Chapters are varied covering exploration, early European settlement, the outback, convicts, gold mining, war, country towns, the sea, Perth, migration and diversity and childhood. Hardback.…