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Grog
A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
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Grog
The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how it all began.
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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.
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ISBN: 9780733634017
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 September 2016
Country: Australia
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Illustration: 35 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 234.0mm
Height: 156.0mm
Weight: 444g
Pages: 336
About the Author
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.
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