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Tim Flannery: When the British met the Australians, 15 December 2005
Dancing with Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians 1788
by Inga Clendinnen.
Canongate, 322 pp., £16.99, August 2005,1 84195 616 3 Show More
by Inga Clendinnen.
Canongate, 322 pp., £16.99, August 2005,
“... On 25 January 1788, HMS Supply eased her way between the imposing sandstone cliffs that mark the entrance to Port Jackson and into a waterway that John White, the First Fleet’s surgeon, proclaimed as ‘the finest and most extensive harbour in the universe’. The hyperbole was perhaps understandable, for the Britons were seeing Sydney Harbour through eyes wearied by months at sea, and this was to be their new home ... ”