Leaders and Larrikins - Great Australian Stories

Australia’s development as a civilization is not  only a stroy of innovations and progress but a story of people.

Leaders and Larrikins presents 20 stories of some of those people who made up the montage of characters who were part of, and formed, this country’s growth and character: people of faith and hope, tenacity and vision. It was their dreams, and sometimes just their need to survive, which led to prosperity, progress, discovery and political evolution. The Australian story is about people who engaged in helping others and giving of themselves, of being a mate or ‘having a go’ that came to characterise the Australian. Still, it was also the larrikin streak within the population that left its mark on the nation’s personality.

Leaders and Larrikins is a unique presentation of historical characters as Dr. Reynolds takes the actual events and meetings that comprised their lives and then creates the dialogue of their interactions. In doing so, the reader gets to ‘meet’ these people and enter into their lives like never before: people like Arthur Phillip, Matthew Flinders and Caroline Chisholm.

Meet men and women who influenced the Australian Character: explorers, entrepreneurs and politicians, alongside of battlers, adventurers and the larrikins. People who gave of themselves to others and people who gave extraordinary support to Aborigines in turbulent times.

Once you start reading this amazing book, you won’t be able to stop.