Botany Bay Mirages
$29.73
- Paperback
1 pages
- Release Date
31 October 1990
Summary
Challenges the web of powerful images which has shaped academic and popular thinking on the early settlement period.
The first dozen years of European settlement of Australia are fixed in our minds by powerful images raised from an incomplete historical record. The reality was quite different. Alan Frost, after collecting a greatly expanded range of documents from archives around the world, sets the record straight.
The images he challenges are immediately familiar:
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522876819 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522876811 |
| Author: | Frost, Alan |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 1990 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 139mm x 214mm |
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Frost, Alan
Alan Frost held a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe University until his retirement in 2008. His writings about our early colonial history include Convicts and Empire (1980); Arthur Phillip, 1738-1814- His Voyaging (1987); ‘A Place of Exile’, in Journeys into History (1990); The Global Reach of Empire (2003); Botany Bay- The Real Story (2011); The First Fleet- The Real Story (2011). In 1996 he published East Coast Country- A North Queensland Dreaming.
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