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Dancing with Strangers

By Boyce , Inga , James;Clendinnen

Book information

Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2017
ISBN
9781925498738, 9781925410952, 1925498735
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3360553 bytes)
Pages
xii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1787-1788;Immigrants;Immigrants--Australia--HistorAustralian;Aboriginal Australians--Australia--SydnAustralian;History;Aboriginal Australians -- Austr

Description

Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen's seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the Australians living there. 'These people mixed with ours, ' wrote a British observer after landfall, 'and all hands danced together.' What followed would shape relations between the peoples for the next two centuries.

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