Born of the Sun: Seven Young Australian Lives

by Walsh, Gerald (2006), 191pp., ISBN 1 74076 174 X.
AUD$31.78 (Including GST: AUD$34.96) (softcover)

Born of the Sun records the lives of seven young Australians who achieved widespread fame in their fields of endeavour between 1866 and 1933— rowing, rugby, swimming, boxing, cricket, medical research and on the battlefield —and who all died in the plenitude of youth.

In doing so, it offers fascinating insights into the social values and psychology of Australia's coming of age. Recounted at a lively pace by an established authority of Australian social and cultural history, this readable account illuminates the lives of Harry Searle, Lonnie Spragg, Barney Kieran, Les Darcy, Archie Jackson, Professor John Hunter and Lieutenant Eric Edgerton: seven young Australians who lived, achieved and died during a period in Australian history of significant economic, technological, social and political changes.