A Journey Travelled: Aboriginal-European Relations at Albany and Surrounding Regions from First Contact to 1926 by Murray Arnold

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

A Journey Travelled is a pivotal Australian story long overdue for telling: how Aboriginal and European people interacted following Britain's territorial invasion in 1826 and its ongoing presence over the next 100 years.

There has been a wealth of documentary and oral history available to researchers prepared to write from a local history perspective, yet very few Australian historians have accepted this challenge. What has been lacking until quite recently is the sense among historians and the general Australian public that the history of Aboriginal-European relations - not only for the first few years of contact but for many decades is central to the nation's story.

This extraordinary situation persisted, with very few exceptions, until the intense cultural and political ferment that swept the Western world during the 1960s inevitably affected the history departments of Australian universities. For the first time, Australians were confronted by the reality of their past as the old reluctance to write about the history of Aboriginal-European relations came to an abrupt end.

As a very readable history of a topic relevant to all Australians, A Journey Travelled examines it from the vantage point of the town of Albany and the wider Great Southern region of Western Australia, bringing a unique story to life. (back cover)