Story of Australia's People Vol. 1

by Geoffrey Blainey

The vast, ancient land of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first stream of immigrants came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to terms with the land they found, and each had to make sense of the other. It was not - and is still not - an easy relationship, and the story of Australia's people is as complex as it is rich. The long Aboriginal occupation of Australia witnessed spectacular changes. The...