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Item Details
| Title:
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FIRST AUSTRALIANS
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY |
| By: |
Rachel Perkins (Editor), Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£70.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0522853153 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780522853155 |
| Publisher: |
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2008 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Presents an illustrated history of Australia. This title also presents the story of the violent clash of culture, religion and ideas at the heart of Australia's history. Beginning with Aboriginal travellers landing on Australian shores around 70,000 BC, it chronicles the war with colonists, the blood massacres and the civil rights movement. |
| Synopsis: |
First Australians, the companion book to the epic SBS TV series, is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Through a vast collection of images and historic documents, seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals-both black and white-caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. By illuminating a handful of extraordinary lives spanning two centuries, First Australians reveals, through their eyes, the events that shaped a new nation. |
| Illustrations: |
4-colour & b/w illustrations |
| Publication: |
Australia |
| Imprint: |
The Miegunyah Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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