Dancing with strangers : Europeans and Australians at first contact / Inga Clendinnen.

Author
Clendinnen, Inga [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description
324 p., 8 p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-321) and index.
Contents
  • Dancing with strangers
  • Meeting the informants
  • Governor Arthur Phillip
  • Captain John Hunter
  • Surgeon-General John White
  • Judge-Advocate David Collins
  • Watkin Tench, Captain-Lieutenant of Marines
  • Settling in
  • What the Australians saw
  • Arabanoo
  • Enter Baneelon
  • Spearing the governor
  • 'Coming in'
  • House guests
  • British sexual politics
  • Australian sexual politics
  • Boat trip to Rose Hill
  • Headhunt
  • On discipline
  • Potato thieves
  • Expedition
  • Crime & punishment : Boladeree
  • Barangaroo
  • Tench goes home
  • Phillip goes home
  • Collins goes home
  • Collins reconsiders
  • Baneelon returned
  • Bungaree
  • Enter Mrs Charles Meredith.
ISBN
  • 9780521851374
  • 0521851378
  • 9780521616812 (pbk.)
  • 0521616816 (pbk.)
LCCN
2005011523
OCLC
57430557
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