@article{1370096,
      recid = {1370096},
      author = {McKenna, Mark,},
      title = {From the edge : Australia's lost histories /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xx, 251 pages) :},
      abstract = {March 1797. Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria. Five British  sailors and twelve Bengali seamen swim ashore after their  longboat is ripped apart in a storm. The British penal  colony at Port Jackson is 700 kilometres to the north,  their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove  stranded far to the south on a tiny island in Bass Strait.  To rescue them and save their own lives, they have no  alternative. They set out to walk to Sydney. What follows  is one of Australia's greatest survival stories and  cross-cultural encounters. In From the Edge, award-winning  historian Mark McKenna uncovers the places and histories  that Australians so often fail to see. Like the largely  forgotten story of the sailors' walk in 1797, these  remarkable histories-the founding of a 'new Singapore' in  West Arnhem Land in the 1840s, the site of Australia's  largest industrial development project in the Pilbara and  its extraordinary Indigenous rock art, and James Cook's  meeting with Aboriginal people at Cooktown in 1770-lie on  the edge of the continent and the edge of national  consciousness.Retracing their steps, McKenna explores the  central drama of Australian history- the encounter between  Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians-each altered  irrevocably by the other-and offers a new understanding of  the country and its people.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1370096},
}