From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories by Mark McKenna

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

In From the Edge, award-winning historian Mark McKenna uncovers the places and histories Australians often fail to see. Like the largely forgotten story of the sailors' walk in 1797, the founding of a 'new Singapore' in West Arnhem Land in the 1840s, the site of Australia's largest industrial development project in the Pilbara and its extraordinary Indigenous rock art, and James Cook's meeting with Aboriginal people at Cooktown in 1770.

These stories lie on the edge of the continent and the edge of national consciousness. Retracing their steps, McKenna explores the central drama of Australian history - the encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, each altered irrevocably by the other, offering a new understanding of the country and its people. (back cover)