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
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: Canongate Books Ltd
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
Odosielame za 3-5 dní
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In January of 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women...

Informácie o knihe

Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2006
Stránok
352
EAN
9781841956992
ISBN
1841956996
Enbook ID
02123340
Vydavateľ
Hmotnosť
246
Rozmery
150 x 229 x 23

Kompletný 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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