People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia /
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British. Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is w...
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Crows Nest, New South Wales :
Allen & Unwin,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Deep country. Old land, first people
- Dyarubbin
- Part II. Frontiers. The great experiment
- Contact and crossings
- Conflict: given no peace
- Part III. New old land. Forests and clearings
- Farming in the bush
- Floods and flood-mindedness
- Commoners and strangers
- Part IV. People of the river. Family fortunes
- Family survival
- The people's pleasures
- Transforming cultures
- Sacred landscapes
- Sacred Country
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations used in the notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.