One Blood: 200 Years of Aboriginal Encounter with Christianity
Post-Colonial Studies Australian History Indigenous Studies Cultural History Christian Missions History Race Relations Religious Studies
One Blood: 200 Years of Aboriginal Encounter with Christianity is the landmark Australian history that collectors, pastors, educators and serious readers keep searching for in hardcover. First released in a sturdy, library-grade cloth binding, this 700-plus-page reference weighs in as both a scholarly cornerstone and a gripping narrative of cross-cultural collision, grace and survival. Because the softcover print-run was small and the hardcover even smaller, intact copies now surface only occasionally—especially ones that have never been exposed to smoke or moisture, making a clean ex-smoke-free copy a genuine find.
Inside, John Harris blends meticulous archival research with first-hand interviews to trace how Christian missions, policies and individual believers intersected with Aboriginal Australia from 1788 to 1988. Readers meet heroic Indigenous evangelists, flawed colonial chaplains, and the Aboriginal communities who re-shaped the gospel into a liberation theology long before the term existed. Harris, a respected historian and educator, writes with the pace of a novelist while supplying 200 pages of footnotes, maps and photographs that satisfy the most demanding researcher. The result is a book equally at home on an antiquarian shelf, a university reading list, or the desk of anyone who wants to understand Australia’s spiritual and cultural DNA.
Collectors prize this edition for its durable sewn signatures and gilt-stamped spine that still photograph beautifully for Instagram or dealer catalogues; pastors and youth-workers value it as the only single-volume source that respects both Christian conviction and Indigenous voice. Young adults tackling reconciliation studies, home-schooling parents building an Australian history curriculum, and art-lovers tracing the Christian motifs in contemporary Aboriginal painting all return to One Blood for authoritative context. Secure this hardcover now while supplies remain—once word spreads of a clean copy, it moves fast.
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