Dancing with Strangers

Inga Clendinnen

Published by Text Pub., 2003

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Melbourne: Text Pub.,WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE IF POSSIBLE- MID SIZE - HARD COVER-WIH DUST JACKET- NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS 2003. Used. Dancing with Strangersis the most important and compulsively readable book about Australian history and identity to appear for many years. Inga Clendinnen tells the story of what happened between the British settlers of New South Wales and the Australian inhabitants they found there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote James Bradley a few days after the First Fleet made landfall in 1788, 'and all hands danced together.' Clendinnen, the distinguished historian of early Spanish America and award-winning author of Tiger's Eyeand Reading the Holocaust,turns her incomparable eye to the extraordinary events attending the first British settlement in Australia. She offers a fresh reading of reports, letters and journals of British participants to reconstruct the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader Bennelong; and then traces the painful destruction of that hard-won friendship as profound cultural differences asserted themselves. Seller Inventory # Product_1063

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dancing with Strangers

Publisher: Text Pub.

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition