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Drawing on history
Cross-dressing colonists
The only other countries in Europe so riven by geography and history are Italy and Germany
Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘ability to write serious history for a general readership was unrivalled in this country … Her writings are an enduring testament to the truth that while we might “live within the narrow moving band of time we call the present … the secret engine of our present is our past
Best Books of 2014
Telling Tennant's Story by Dean Ashenden evolution Drawing on historyThe tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact. Provoked by a half hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of relations between two racial groups in a single field of life has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir,