The Coming of the Strangers: Life in Australia 1788-1822 by Baiba Berzins

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside page.

The Coming of the Strangers challenges our ideas about the British settlement of Australia. Through a selection of the many documents, paintings and engravings held in the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales, a picture of life in Australia is reconstructed spanning the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to 1822 when the first generation of British Australians had accepted the continent as their home.

Those who left no written records - Indigenous Australias, convicts and British women., have brought a balanced perspective of history during the earliest decades of European habitation in Australia (back cover)