Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet

Contents..List of figures..Acknowledgments..Introduction: The road to Botany Bay..1. A place for stories..Captain Cook, colonial origins and hairy wild men..2. Sydney's backdoor..Isolating the city's unwanted at Botany Bay..3. boomerangs for sale..Tourism in the birthplace of the nation..4. A little piece of France..Commemorating the French at Botany Bay..5. From shantytowns to suburbs..Botany Bay's residential landscape..6. The past as future..Industrial development and environmental politics..7. Remembering dispossession and survival..Botany bay stories revisited..Notes..Bibliography..index