Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlands on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library book with stickers, stamps and protective plastic covering. Pages have sunned.

After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession.

It also tells the rout of another people, the Kurnai People of Gippsland in south-eastern Australia. And prominent among those who did the routing were emigrant Highlanders like the explorer Angus McMillan. Don Watson writes about the frontier on which those two cultures met. It is a story full of tragic ironies and myths which linger to this day.

First published in 1984 and recognised as a significant revisionist work.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers, please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.