Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contact in Australia

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 crosscultural exchanges, which resulted in profound outcomes for the First Australians.Veth, Peter is the author of 'Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contact in Australia', published 2008 under ISBN 9781876944636 and ISBN 1876944633.