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Agamemnon's Kiss - Selected Essays by Inga Clendinnen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death; and abo ...Show more
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics by Inga Clendinnen
$12.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen's seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the Australians living there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote a Br ...Show more
Inga Clendinnen: Selected Writings by Inga Clendinnen; James Boyce (ed.)
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-fiction
Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger's Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. The rich array is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen's life and ...Show more
Quaterley Essay : The History Question by Inga Clendinnen; Chris Feik (Editor)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In QE23, acclaimed writer and thinker Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? What are the differences between memory, history and myth? Clendinnen discusses what good history looks like and, m ...Show more
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen
$26.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
In this searching and eloquent book, Inga Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view in an attempt to extract the comprehensible - the recognisably human - from the unthinkable. Winner of the 1999 New South Wales Premier's History Award ...Show more
Tiger's Eye: A Memoir by Inga Clendinnen
$25.95 AUD
Category: Biography
An astonishing memoir by one of Australia's greatest writers. Clendinnen takes us on a journey into dangerous territory in which her body, her mind and her life are irrevocably changed. A brave and mesmerising book, it is not about being ill or well - its true subject is being alive.
True Stories: History, Politics, Aboriginality (1999 Boyer Lectures) by CLENDINNEN Inga
$19.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Boyer Lectures
The ghosts swarm like angry bees...the early wars, the Stolen Children report, the devastating health statistics, the extravagant incidence of self-destructive acts among Aboriginal adolescents...There has also been a great deal of talk about 'guilt' and 'shame', and what precise mixture of each non-Abo ...Show more
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