Cover art for Great Australian World Firsts
Published
Allen & Unwin, September 2012
ISBN
9781742376738
Format
Hardcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 15.3cm × 2.3cm

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Australians are among the most outstanding innovators on the planet, leading the world in achievements across many fields such as sport, the arts, medicine, transport and exploration. Before Arthur Conan Doyle, Australia's own Mary Fortune was the first female author of detective fiction and one of the most prolific crime writers of the nineteenth century.

The glowing fire of Australian opals would have probably remained unknown to the world gem market if it hadn't been for Tullie C. Wollaston. Kay Cottee was the first woman to complete a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world by sea, and long before the successes of Mark Webber there was Sir Jack Brabham, the first person to win a Formula One World Championship in a car that he designed himself. Read the stories of thirty remarkable Australians, many of whom are long overdue for recognition.

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