Caledonia Australis

Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

Don Watson

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Vintage
01 April 2009

History; European history; Australasian & Pacific history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Colonialism & imperialism; Migration, immigration & emigration

An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen.

An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen.

After 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.

It also tells the rout of another people, the Kurnai of Gippsland in south-eastern Australia. And prominent among those who did the routing were emigrant Highlanders like the explorer Angus McMillan.

Don 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.

First published in 1984 and recognised as a significant revisionist work, Caledonia Australis 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.

By: Don Watson
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9781741667660
ISBN 10: 1741667666
Pages: 317
Publication Date: 01 April 2009
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Don Watson's RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART: Paul Keating Prime Minister, won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year. His Quarterly Essay, RABBIT SYNDROME: Australia and America won the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize. DEATH SENTENCE, his best-selling book about the decay of public language won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year 2003. WATSON'S DICTIONARY OF WEASEL WORDS, another best-seller, was published in 2004. His most recent book AMERICAN JOURNEYS won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards in 2008. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.