{"product_id":"dancing-with-strangers-text-classics","title":"Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics","description":"A highly awarded work of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eDancing with Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the British settlers of New South Wales and Australia's first peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing with Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is Inga Clendinnen's seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the Australians living there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote a British observer after landfall, 'and all hands danced together.' What followed would shape relations between the peoples for the next two centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Kiriyama Prize 2004\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004 \u003cbr\u003eWinner, Best History Book, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2004","brand":"Inga Clendinnen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516776349757,"sku":null,"price":14.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925498738.jpg?v=1787572789","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/dancing-with-strangers-text-classics","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}