Grog : A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years Paperback / softback
by Tom Gilling
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 35 Illustrations
- Publisher:Hachette Australia
- Publication Date:27/09/2016
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- ISBN:9780733634017
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 35 Illustrations
- Publisher:Hachette Australia
- Publication Date:27/09/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780733634017