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Dancing with Strangers - Europeans and Australians at First Contact (Hardcover, New)
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Dancing with Strangers - Europeans and Australians at First Contact (Hardcover, New)
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In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales,
Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the
people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers
tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers
of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the
earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of
the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the
difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur
Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was
ultimately destroyed by the assertion of profound cultural
differences. A Prize-winning archaeologist, anthropologist and
historian of ancient Mexican cultures, Inga Clendinnen has spent
most of her teaching career at La Trobe University in Bundoora,
Australia. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan
(Cambridge, 1989) and Aztecs: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1995)
are two of her best-known scholarly works; Tiger's Eye: A Memoir,
(Scribner, 2001) describes her battle against liver cancer. Reading
the Holocaust (Cambridge, 2002) explores World War II genocide from
various perspectives.
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