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1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia’s Beginnings

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1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia’s Beginnings

SKU: 9781743791608 Category: Product ID: 12713

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Title: 1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia’s Beginnings
Author: BRODIE NICK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/09/2016
Imprint: HARDIE GRANT
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active

For over 200 years Australia’s official history has focused on English colonisation and ‘discovery’, with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the history books. 1787 traces the journey of Australia before the infamous 1788 date, to explore just how ‘discovered’ the southern continent was by not only the Indigenous Austrlaians who had lived and prospered for thousands of years, but also the sailors, traders, fishermen and many others who had visited our shores.

This is not about voyages of ‘discovery’ cartography, geography, or hero-capitains and their sailing ship adventures. This is a bigger history- of the rise and fall of empires, the shifts in global economies and their impact on Australia. By charting the encounters with Australia, and its original people by several major groups of visitors, primarily the Portuguese, Dutch Malay, French and British from the late Middle Ages, 1787 reveals the stories of first encounters between Indigenous Australians and foreigners, placing Indigenous Australians back into our known history rather than a timeless, pre-historical one. It’s a fascinating story that shifts focus away from post-colonial history and engages the reader in the eventful and lively stories of Australia as a vast and active land participating in a global history.

ISBN: 9781743791608
Weight: 538gr
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 304

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Weight 538 g
Dimensions 234 × 153 mm