Dancing with Strangers by Inga Clendinnen

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge and at spine. Small tear to top right front cover has been protected with book tape. Interior and binding are excellent.

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)