You may have read about American Indians who resisted the loss of their lands. This book tells how the Aborigines in Australia fought similarly in defense of their lands along a most savage frontier. Jack of Cape Grim is a unique and rare account, based on original unpublished handwritten diaries and correspondence, and on Aboriginal memories, of an intrepid band of Aboriginal women and men who fought to protect their lands, resisting three military expeditions sent after them. Melbourne in 1839 consisted of tumbledown wooden houses and roads so muddy that horses and carts sunk out of sight,...
You may have read about American Indians who resisted the loss of their lands. This book tells how the Aborigines in Australia fought similarly in def...
