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Dancing With Strangers

Name: Dancing With Strangers
Brand: Canongate Books Ltd
SKU: 02123340
Price: 16.17 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Inga Clendinnen
ISBN: 9781841956992

The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788

Inga Clendinnen

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 02123340

Publishers Canongate Books Ltd, May 2006

In January of 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women... Full description

Libristo code: 02123340

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In January of 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours - the beach nomads of Australia. "These people mixed with ours," wrote a British observer soon after the landfall, "and all hands danced together." What followed would determine relations between the peoples for the next two hundred years. Drawing skilfully on first-hand accounts and historical records, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the complex dance of curiosity, attraction, and mistrust performed by the protagonists of either side. She brings this key chapter in British colonial history brilliantly alive. Then we discover why the dancing stopped...