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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...' (Source: Book Depository website)
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Works about this Work
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Meat-Eaters
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , June 2018;'In 2015, Richie Benaud hosted an ‘Australia Day’ barbeque, a pantheon of colonial historical figures on his invite list. Benaud gathered the English navigator, Captain James Cook, who remapped and renamed the east coast of this continent in 1770, and Burke and Wills, whose agonising deaths at Coopers Creek in 1861 were possibly in part the result of them coming to rely on the seeds of an aquatic fern, nardoo (Marsilea drummondii), for nutrition.' (Introduction)
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Origin Story : Dancing with Strangers
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2017;'The publication of Inga Clendinnen’s Dancing with Strangers in 2003 gave Australia what the country desperately needed for the new millennium: a founding story in which the human beings who encountered each other in 1788 could finally become part of the national imagination.' (Introduction)
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact by Inga Clendinnen : Review
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Pacific Affairs , Summer vol. 2 no. 79 2006; (p. 357-358)
— Review of Dancing with Strangers : The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788 2005 single work criticism
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact by Inga Clendinnen : Review
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Pacific Affairs , Summer vol. 2 no. 79 2006; (p. 357-358)
— Review of Dancing with Strangers : The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788 2005 single work criticism -
Origin Story : Dancing with Strangers
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2017;'The publication of Inga Clendinnen’s Dancing with Strangers in 2003 gave Australia what the country desperately needed for the new millennium: a founding story in which the human beings who encountered each other in 1788 could finally become part of the national imagination.' (Introduction)
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Meat-Eaters
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , June 2018;'In 2015, Richie Benaud hosted an ‘Australia Day’ barbeque, a pantheon of colonial historical figures on his invite list. Benaud gathered the English navigator, Captain James Cook, who remapped and renamed the east coast of this continent in 1770, and Burke and Wills, whose agonising deaths at Coopers Creek in 1861 were possibly in part the result of them coming to rely on the seeds of an aquatic fern, nardoo (Marsilea drummondii), for nutrition.' (Introduction)