Dancing with Strangers by Inga Clendinnen

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly back cover left corner. Previous owner has signed inside cover.

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 ours,' wrote a British observer after landfall, 'and all hands danced together.' What followed would shape relations between the peoples for the next two centuries. (back cover)