Grog
A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
Seiten
2016
Hachette Australia (Verlag)
978-0-7336-3401-7 (ISBN)
Hachette Australia (Verlag)
978-0-7336-3401-7 (ISBN)
The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how it all began.
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.
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.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.01.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 35 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Sydney |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 156 mm |
| Gewicht | 444 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7336-3401-X / 073363401X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7336-3401-7 / 9780733634017 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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