The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European invasion of Australia

The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history. Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, the book describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans. Henry Reynolds’ argument that the Aborigines resisted fiercely was highly original when it was first published and is no less challenging today.

'Reading this carefully researched, judicious and heartfelt book twenty-five years after it first appeared, no one could doubt the magnitude of Henry Reynolds’s achievement in profoundly changing the way we our understand our past. The Other Side of the Frontier remains a superb piece of history that still can make my eyes film with tears.' -Professor Cassandra Pybus