Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Ancient Australia

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Triumph of the Nomads, Geoffrey Blainey's thirteenth book, is a startling reassessment of the Aborigines in early Australia. Rather than being prisoners in a hostile continent, the Aborigines were a successful race —triumphant in their discovery of the land, triumphant in their adaptation to it, and in their mastery of its contrasting climates, seasons and resources. Triumph of the Nomads was co-winner of the Barbara Ramsden Award for Literature, 1976, and was highly commended by the National Book Council in 1976. "Triumph of the Nomads...presents a case for the Aborigines that the traditionally-minded will find as startling as some critics declared the thesis of The Tyranny of Distance to be." --AGE "unflaggingly interesting, persuasively argued and beautifully written" --AUSTRALIAN "He succeeds, as he did before with The Tyranny of Distance in producing an original, interesting book, by asking the bread-and-butter economic questions." --BULLETIN SUN AUSTRALIA