In the Wake of First Contact

Kay Schaffer

first published 1995 Cambridge University Press, 1996 hardcover 260 pages

In The Wake of First Contact explores one of the best known events in Australian colonial history. In 1836 the Stirling Castle was wrecked off the Queensland coast and many of the crew together with the Captain's wife, Eliza Fraser, were marooned on Fraser Island. Stories and images about the events were published immediately and were soon in wide circulation. They reflected the cultural attitudes of the time, castin...

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In the Wake of First Contact paperback · 1998 · Cambridge University Press · 333 pages · 9780521499200
In the Wake of First Contact hardcover · 1996 · Cambridge University Press · 260 pages

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