Dancing With Strangers

Publisher's synopsis

In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the people who would be their new neighbours – the beach nomads of Australia.

‘These people mixed with ours,’ wrote a British observer soon after landfall, ‘and all hands danced together.’

What followed would shape relations between the peoples for the next two centuries.

Awards

Winner 2004 Kiriyama Prize for non-fiction
Winner 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Winner 2004 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Best History Book
Shortlisted 2004 Age Book of the Year
Shortlisted 2004 Courier-Mail Book of the Year
Shortlisted 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Shortlisted 2004 Westfield/Waverley Library Award for Literature

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Inga Clendinnen

Inga Clendinnen was born in Geelong in 1934. Her early books and scholarly articles on the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico earned her a reputation as one of the world’s finest historians. Reading the Holocaust, Tiger’s Eye and Dancing with Strangers have been critically acclaimed and won a number of local and international awards.

Further Details

Author Inga Clendinnen

Publisher Text Publishing

Date of Publication 2003

ISBN 9781920885366 (print)

Category Narrative History