{"product_id":"9781925498738","title":"Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics","description":"Author: Clendinnen, Inga\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925498738\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Aug 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 352 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA highly awarded work of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eDancing with Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the British settlers of New South Wales and Australia's first peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing with Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Kiriyama Prize 2004\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004 \u003cbr\u003eWinner, Best History Book, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2004","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48171421237406,"sku":"UBD-9781925498738","price":14.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925498738.jpg?v=1787220830","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925498738","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}