Grog

A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years

Paperback EN 2016 9780733634017
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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.

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ISBN13:9780733634017
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:336
Uitgever:Hachette Australia
Thema:
1MBF Australië
1MBF-AU-N Nieuw-Zuid-Wales
3ML 18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799
3MN 19e eeuw, ca. 1800 tot ca. 1899

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