AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
All Publication Details
-
-
Appears in:
-
y
Dancing with Strangers : The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788
Dancing with Strangers : Europeans and Australians at First Contact
Edinburgh
:
Canongate
,
2005
8890539
2005
single work
criticism
'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)
Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2017
-
y
-
