Grog

A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years

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Tom Gilling

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Paperback / softback

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

September 27th, 2016

Author

Tom Gilling

Collection

Australia

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

35 illustrations

Pages

336

Dimensions

234x156x26

ISBN-13

9780733634017

Product ID

25436058

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