
Grog
A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
Tom Gilling(Author)
Hachette Australia (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-7336-3401-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
35 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
444 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7336-3401-7 (9780733634017)
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Person
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.