Authors: MILLISS, ROGER.

Title: Waterloo Creek.

Subtitle: The Australia Day Massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales.

Description: First Edition; Thick Cr. 4to; pp. xvi, 965; map endpapers, frontispiece, b/w illustrations, maps, endnotes, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth with title in white on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.

Comment: Waterloo Creek is a comprehensive and intricately drawn account of the dramatic events of 1838, against the background of the fate of the Aborigines of south-eastern Australia generally in the first fifty years of the European invasion. At its centre is the story of the whites rapacious grabbing of the land. In its pursuit, morality and law are disregarded, the well-meaning Gipps broken and humiliated, and genocide committed, condoned and even encouraged.

Publisher: Ringwood; McPhee Gribble; 1992.

Price: AUD240.00

Book ID: 122280

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