Botany Bay Mirages

by Alan Frost

Challenges the web of powerful images which has shaped academic and popular thinking on the early settlement period.

The first dozen years of European settlement of Australia are fixed in our minds by powerful images raised from an incomplete historical record. The reality was quite different. Alan Frost, after collecting a greatly expanded range of documents from archives around the world, sets the record straight.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522876811
• ISBN13: 9780522876819
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"