The Dreaming Team

By Chris Wallace

In the 1850s, Australia was a thriving colony of the British Empire, with its own sense of importance and sophistication. But the people who had occupied this vast land for upwards of 40,000 years didn't fit well with colonial expectations of the future. In every way imaginable, white Australia tried to keep its "darkies" in line. It is against this backdrop in the 1860s that the amazing story of an all Aboriginal cricket team, the first Aussie team to do so, played at Lords, the home of cricket in England. Conventional wisdom predicted that Indigenous Australians would die off by the next generation. The Dreaming Team brings those Indigenous players to life and follows them on an adventure that would appear to be unbelievable if it weren't true. They not only changed the minds and perceptions about Aboriginal Australians, they arguably, changed the course of Australian history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0645968706
• ISBN13: 9780645968705
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Thorpe-Bowker
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"