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Dancing With Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788
Inga Clendinnen
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Description for Dancing With Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788
Paperback. 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. Drawing on historical records, this book presents this key chapter in British colonial history, and reconstructs the complex dance of curiosity, attraction, and mistrust. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJD1; HBJM; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 380.
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 . . .
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841956992
SKU
V9781841956992
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-60
About Inga Clendinnen
INGA CLENDINNEN is a distinguished historian and author. Reading the Holocaust was named a New York Times Best Book of the Year and was awarded the New South Wales Premier's General History Award in 1999. Her subsequent work, Tiger's Eye was awarded the 2002 Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation and the Nita B.Kibble Award for Women Writers 2001 and was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award 2000. Her essays and short stories have been widely published.
Reviews for Dancing With Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788
In a voice that is always careful, thoughtful, deliberate, she teases out the story from what is not said, from ironic or obtuse turns of phrases in sentences constrained by professional formality or egotistical defensiveness . . . (Clendinnen) is above all a skilled interpreter of human behaviour. It is this psychologically astute . . . approach that sets her apart as a thoroughly 21st-century historian.
Susan Elderkin
Guardian
Clendinnen revitalises out interest . . . Her glimpses are less conclusive but more truthful. They leave us with the feeling that we have not got it right, and that in itself is a spring-board back into investigation.
Nicholas Shakespeare
Daily Telegraph
The story evoked is one of mystery, excitement and tension. Clendinnen's obvious passion for the subject transfers brilliantly onto the page as people and places are brought vividly to life.
Big Issue
A moving, often surprising story.
Scotsman
Clendinnen writes so well, with an eye for detail and character that make her a pleasure to read . . . Her words dance across the page.
New York Times
An extraordinary achievement.
Robert Main Fascinating. Transforms our understanding of history from something static into something lived.
James Bredley
Sydney Morning Herald
Susan Elderkin
Guardian
Clendinnen revitalises out interest . . . Her glimpses are less conclusive but more truthful. They leave us with the feeling that we have not got it right, and that in itself is a spring-board back into investigation.
Nicholas Shakespeare
Daily Telegraph
The story evoked is one of mystery, excitement and tension. Clendinnen's obvious passion for the subject transfers brilliantly onto the page as people and places are brought vividly to life.
Big Issue
A moving, often surprising story.
Scotsman
Clendinnen writes so well, with an eye for detail and character that make her a pleasure to read . . . Her words dance across the page.
New York Times
An extraordinary achievement.
Robert Main Fascinating. Transforms our understanding of history from something static into something lived.
James Bredley
Sydney Morning Herald