Grog: A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years

Tom Gilling

Grog: A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Country
Australia
Published
27 September 2016
Pages
336
ISBN
9780733634017

Grog: A Bottled History of Australia’s First 30 Years

Tom Gilling

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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