Description: From the #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders, a collection of 32 brief, highly entertaining and seriously illuminating histories of urban invention
Brief description: Mark McKenna is a native of Sydney, Australia, and is a professor of history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books on history and politics in Australia, including From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories, Return to Uluru, and An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, which won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the Victorian, New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australian premiers' awards. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2013.
Review Quotes: Mark McKenna's The Shortest History of Australia found a new way to trace this continent. . . . With every page, the kaleidoscope shifted and a new way of seeing emerged.-- "Australian Book Review"