People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens

People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace KarskensDyarubbin, the Hawkesbury Nepean River, is where the two early Australias ancient and modern first collided. People of the River journeys into the lost worlds of the Aboriginal people and the settlers of Dyarubbin, both complex worlds with ancient roots. The settlers who took land on the river from the mid 1790s were there because of an extraordinary experiment devised half a world away. Modern Australia was not founded as a gaol, as we usually

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