Spanning two decades, from 1816-1835, and set around the Hawkesbury River area, the home of the Darug people in Parramatta and Sydney, Julie Janson sheds light on the heartbreaking violence and erasure of colonization, as well as remarkable survival and resistance - a vivid and compelling portrait of the Aboriginal Australians whose way of life is forever altered. Janson draws on historical events to recreate this pivotal time - things that may have happened to her own ancestors - giving voice to an Aboriginal experience of early-settlement in Australia. Print run 40,000.
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