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Dancing with Strangers

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Inga Clendinnen

  • awardWinner, Kiriyama Prize, 2004
  • awardWinner, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2004
  • awardWinner, Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Best History Book, 2004
  • awardShortlisted, Age Book of the Year, 2004
  • awardShortlisted, Courier-Mail Book of the Year, 2004
  • awardShortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2004
  • awardShortlisted, Westfield/Waverley Library Award for Literature, 2004
  • Introduction by James Boyce

    Winner, Kiriyama Prize 2004
    Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2004
    Winner, Best History Book, Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards 2004


    Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen’s seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the Australians living there. ‘These people mixed with ours,’ wrote a British observer after landfall, ‘and all hands danced together.’ What followed would shape relations between the peoples for the next two centuries.

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    Inga Clendinnen
    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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    Extent:
    352pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    28 August 2017
    ISBN:
    9781925498738
    AU Price:
    $14.95
    NZ Price:
    $17.99
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    Praise for Inga Clendinnen
    andDancing 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.’

    ‘Wonderfully brave and stylishly written…Sometimes provocative, but startling in the way it entertainingly refreshes our history.’

    ‘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.’

    ‘A masterful book, elegantly conceived and written with narrative brilliance. Clendinnen is witty, incisively poetic.’

    ‘Enthralling, and masterful in its prose…Clendinnen’s characters come vividly to life in her poetically written and compelling story.’

    Other editions ofDancing with Strangers
    • Dancing with Strangers
      ebook
      ISBN: 9781925410952
      28 August 2017
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