Dancing With Strangers

Author: Inga Clendinnen

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Price : $26.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781920885366
Publisher : Text Publishing Co
Imprint : The Text Publishing Company
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Weight (g) : 0.33
Publication date : 01 October 2004
Dimensions : 198mm X mm
Produced in : Australia
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Out of print date : 01 September 2017
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
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Dewey classification : 994.410049915
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Pages : 336
BIC subject : World history: c 1750 to c 1900; Indigenous peoples
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Description

Dancing with Strangers reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) and then traces the painful destruction of that hard-won friendship as profound cultural differences asserted themselves.

Awards

Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award 2004 and Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Best History Book 2004 and Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Fiction 2004. Shortlisted for Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award 2004 and Age Book of the Year 2004 and Westfield/Waverley Library Literary Award 2004 and Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2004.

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Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.