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Dancing with Strangers

✍ Scribed by Boyce, James;Clendinnen, Inga


Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
396 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Australia,Australia., New South Wales--Sydney Region.
ISBN
1925410951

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Winner, Kiriyama Prize 2004
Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004
Winner, Best History Book, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2004

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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.

Inga Clendinnen was born in Geelong in 1934. Her early books and scholarly articles on the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico earned her a reputation as one of the world's finest historians. Reading the Holocaust , Tiger's Eye and Dancing with Strangers have been critically acclaimed and won a number...

✦ Subjects


New South Wales -- Sydney Region


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