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Very Highly Recommended Read!
A marvellously realised meld of the experience of early colonial contact from the perspectives and in the voices of all of the participants: the Noongar (ancient Aboriginal custodians of this spectacular coast); the early settlers, predominantly convicts and their wardens, as well as those free men with what we might call the ‘colonial spirit’, of starting anew in ‘virgin’ lands; and the early whalers, who were indeed the initial reference point for the indigenous encounter with the Other.
