Product details
ISBN
9780733634017
Published
2016
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Weight
444 gr
Height
156 mm
Width
234 mm
Thickness
26 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author
Biographical note
Tom Gilling is a respected journalist and acclaimed novelist whose books include THE SOOTERKIN, a New York Times Notable Book, DREAMLAND and SEVEN MILE BEACH.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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The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how it all began.
Product details
ISBN
9780733634017
Published
2016
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Weight
444 gr
Height
156 mm
Width
234 mm
Thickness
26 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author