From the edge - Mark McKenna

This is an imaginative and original new telling of modern Australia through the history and stories of ten places, all revisited and explained by award-winning author and historian Mark McKenna, including Sydney Cove, Port Essington, The Pilbara, Central Australia, Canberra, Anzac Cove, coastal cities, Christmas Island, Tasmania and the western suburbs of Sydney

Mark McKenna is one of Australia's leading historians. His most recent book, An Eye for Eternity: the life of Manning Clark won five national awards, includingthe 2012 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. He is also the author of Looking for Blackfellas' Point: an Australian history of Place which won the Book of the Year and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2003 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. His essays, reviews and political commentary have appeared in The Monthly, Meanjin, ABR, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian