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Grog: A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Grog: A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
Contributors:
By (Author) Tom Gilling
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Imprint:
Hachette Australia
Publication Date:
27th September 2016
Country:
Australia
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Australasian and Pacific history
Food and drink: alcoholic beverages
Dewey:
994.02
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
336
Dimensions:
Width 234mm, Height 156mm, Spine 26mm
Weight:
444g
Description
The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolution, made fortunes and ruined lives.
In a society with few luxuries, liquor was power. It played a crucial role, not just in the lives of individuals like James Squire - the London chicken thief who became Australia's first brewer - but in the transformation of a starving penal outpost into a prosperous trading port.Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, Grog offers an intoxicating look at the first decades of European settlement and explores the origins of Australia's fraught love affair with the hard stuff.Author Bio
Tom Gilling is a respected journalist and acclaimed novelist whose books include THE SOOTERKIN, a New York Times Notable Book, DREAMLAND and SEVEN MILE BEACH.
