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THE FLYING KANGAROO: 100 YEARS OF QANTAS

By Neil Montagnana-Wallace

IN CELEBRATION of our national airline’s centenary, this remarkable new book features never-beforeseen photographs and previously untold histories from the Qantas archives.

is a richly illustrated timeline of history of Qantas, charted alongside the social and cultural context from the 1910s through to today. The airline launched in the

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