Dancing with Strangers

By: Inga Clendinnen

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Paperback | 24 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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

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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.

Praise for Dancing with Strangers:

'I cannot imagine that a more vivid or beguiling account of the origins of British Australia will ever be written…an extraordinary achievement.' — Robert Manne

'Because we know the outcome, the story has a deep poignancy. But Clendinnen does not just plod through the familiar sad story of oppression. Hers is a lyrical account that draws us into its passionate heart.' — New Zealand Herald

'Wonderfully brave and stylishly written...sometimes provocative, but startling in the way it entertainingly refreshes our history.' — Courier-Mail

'A masterful book, elegantly conceived and written with narrative brilliance. Clendinnen is witty, incisively poetic and flawed with humanity.' — Age

About the Author

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.

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