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Against the Tide: Salmon Women Pioneers in Colonial New South Wales

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21.01.2022 http://perryannsnodgrass.com.au/buy-against-the-tide/ Get it now!

12.01.2022 An excellent article for everyone interested in Australian Colonial history is expressed in the Weekend Australian by Luke Slattery. Thirty years ago Robert Hughes, wrote in his engaging prose, 'The Fatal Shore' on the cruelty and despair of the early settlement. The 'first fleet' convicts and their masters all had a torrid time until food was plentiful. However life wasn't as bad as Hughes paints. Hughes omitted in his book the glowing observations of the colony made by, Charles Darwin who visited in 1836 and by Jacques Arago in his book 'Narrative of a Voyage around the World ' published in 1822, who was on Louis de Freycinet 's ship when it visited Sydney Cove in 1819. Worth a read and so is my book dealing with Sydney 50 years later.

11.01.2022 Barangaroo Reserve on Sydney Harbour is an engineering masterpiece. In Colonial Sydney,Barangaroo was a Cammeraygal woman and the wife of Bennelong. The reclaimed waterfront and re-created headland is once more a public space and the rows of terraces and quaint pubs still remain in Miller's Point. My book 'Against the Tide' is set in Lower George St, The Rocks and Blue's Point.

04.01.2022 Sarah Bird was the first female publican to be granted a hotel licence in 1797. She was 27, a convict and she opened her pub, the 'Three Jolly Settlers' at the Rocks a year after arriving in the colony. There is more about Sarah's life and her daughter Anne who married newspaper man Robert Howe in my book 'Against the Tide'