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Dancing with strangers : Europeans and Australians at first contact

by Inga Clendinnen

Drawing on first-hand journals and reports, this history analyses the initial encounters and complex relations between British settlers and Indigenous Australians from 1788, focusing on the friendship and eventual conflict between Arthur Phillip and Bennelong.

Accession 11976 ISBN 9780521851374 Publisher Cambridge University Press
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