The Victorians: Arriving by Richard Broome

Book Description

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

Migration means more than a shift from one place to another. It is an awesome uprooting from one's birthplace, home and culture, which requires difficult, even painful, adjustments from old ways to new ones.

Over the last 150 years, almost two million people have immigrated permanently to Victoria, where they populated and changed the land and were in turn affected by it. Long before this, unknown numbers of Indigenous Australians also moved here.

Arriving tells the story of the various waves of newcomers to Victoria and explains why and how they came and what became of them once here. It is the history of individual experience, of the fortunes of various ethnic groups and of immigration en masse. It also describes how the newcomers interacted with those already here.

The first comprehensive account of Victorian migration story, spanning the past 50,000 years. (back cover)