 The Colony: A history of early Sydney by Grace Karskens
The Colony is the story of the fantastically divergent, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, this intelligently written volume skillfully reveals how the landscape shaped the lives of the original Aboriginal inhabitants and newcomers alike. It traces the ways in which relationships between the colonial authorities and ordinary men and women broke with old patterns, and the ways that settler and Aboriginal histories became entwined. It also uncovers the ties between the burgeoning township and its rural hinterland expanding along the river systems of the Cumberland Plain.
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