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First encounter: dance, discovery, and a nation’s shaping.

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Text Classics

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    28 August 2017

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Summary

A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the British settlers of New South Wales and Australia’s first peoples.

Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen’s seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the Australians living there. ‘These people mixed with…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781925498738
ISBN-10:1925498735
Author:Inga Clendinnen
Publisher:Text Publishing
Imprint:The Text Publishing Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:28 August 2017
Weight:266g
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Critics Review

‘I cannot imagine that a more vivid or beguiling account of the origins of British Australia will ever be written…an extraordinary achievement.’

‘I cannot imagine that a more vivid or beguiling account of the origins of British Australia will ever be written…an extraordinary achievement.’ – Robert Manne * Age *
‘Wonderfully brave and stylishly written…Sometimes provocative, but startling in the way it entertainingly refreshes our history.’ * Courier Mail *
‘Because we know the outcome, the story has a deep poignancy. But Clendinnen does not just plod through the familiar sad story of oppression. Hers is a lyrical account that draws us into its passionate heart.’ * New Zealand Herald *
‘A masterful book, elegantly conceived and written with narrative brilliance. Clendinnen is witty, incisively poetic.’ – Anne McGrath * Age *
‘Enthralling, and masterful in its prose…Clendinnen’s characters come vividly to life in her poetically written and compelling story.’ * Toowoomba Chronicle *

About The Author

Inga Clendinnen

Inga Clendinnen is an acclaimed scholar of Mayan and Aztec cultures. Her book Reading the Holocaust won the NSW Premier’s History Award and was chosen as one of the best books of 1999 by the New York Times.

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