Kniha Dancing With Strangers Inga Clendinnen

Dancing With Strangers

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

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: Canongate Books Ltd
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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In January of 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2006
Stránek
352
EAN
9781841956992
ISBN
1841956996
Enbook ID
02123340
Hmotnost
246
Rozměry
150 x 229 x 23

Kompletní popis

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...

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