{"product_id":"caledonia-australis-by-don-watson-9781741667660","title":"Caledonia Australis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also tells the rout of another people, the Kurnai of Gippsland in south-eastern Australia. Prominent among those who did the routing were emigrant Highlanders like the explorer Angus McMillan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDon Watson writes about the frontier on which those two cultures met. It is a story full of tragic ironies and myths which linger to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1984 and recognised as a significant revisionist work, \u003ci\u003eCaledonia Australis\u003c\/i\u003e is all the more intriguing and instructive now as debate continues to rage over Aboriginal native title, practical reconciliation and the way Australian history should be written, taught and understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46343511703788,"sku":"9781741667660","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2578283482808.jpg?v=1743996416","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/caledonia-australis-by-don-watson-9781741667660","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}