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A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.

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Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rather a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity than coercion, discipline and punishment. Hardcover ISBN 0522847226 $34.95.