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Grog

A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years

Tom Gilling

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English
Hachette Australia
27 September 2016
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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Imprint:   Hachette Australia
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 156mm,  Width: 234mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   444g
ISBN:   9780733634017
ISBN 10:   073363401X
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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