@article{459038, author = {Veth, Peter Marius. and Sutton, Peter, and Neale, Margo.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/459038}, title = {Strangers on the shore early coastal contacts in Australia / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {National Museum of Australia Press,}, abstract = {"Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also looks at the myriad elements of these cross-cultural exchanges, which resulted in profound outcomes for the First Australians. Strangers on the Shore: A Conference on Early Coastal Contacts with Australia was a landmark conference held at the National Museum of Australia on 30-31 March 2006"--Provided by publisher.}, recid = {459038}, pages = {x, 211 p. :}, address = {Canberra, A.C.T. :}, year = {2008}, }