Challenge and the Chance, The: The Colonisation and Settlement of North West Australia 1861-1914.

Kay Forrest
ISBN: 0859052176 Categories: ,

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Forrest focuses on black-white relationships, and the changing attitudes and moralities of white Australians when they too became indigenous. In a poverty stricken colony and in a district too vast, the new breed of colonisers wrested a living from a harsh environment and the Aborigines.Opens a new chapter of Australian history.

xiv, 348 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims. ; 26 cm. #0619

First Edition (Aboriginal Affairs Dept stamp on prelim.)

Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — History. Western Australia — Colonization. Western Australia — History — 1851-1901. Australia, Northwestern — History.

Additional Information

AuthorKay Forrest
PublisherHesperian Press, WA
Year Published1996
Book Condition

Very Good

Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

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