Surveying The Wild Abyss: Unravelling Settler Memory Publisher / Abacus Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

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Surveying The Wild Abyss: Unravelling Settler Memory Publisher / Abacus Safiya Kamaria KinshasaBy Barry Corr A unique record of the Hawkesburys Frontier War and a powerful contemplation on memory and atonement. In this groundbreaking history of colonisation and frontier conflict in the Hawkesbury region, historian Barry Corr navigates the gaps and silences in the primary records to reveal settler amnesia, the cataclysmic nature of colonisation and the way history is remembered, or not remembered. Driven by primary source analysis of colonial