This Whispering in Our Hearts - Henry Reynolds

Title: This Whispering in Our Hearts
Author: Henry Reynolds
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Year: 1998
ISBN: 1-86448-581-7
Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good second-hand condition. Minor shelf wear and light edge wear consistent with age and reading.

An important work of Australian history examining conscience, colonial violence, and the moral debates surrounding the treatment of Indigenous Australians.

Historian Henry Reynolds traces the lives of settlers, politicians, missionaries, reformers, and ordinary individuals who questioned or opposed violence and injustice during Australia’s colonial expansion. Drawing on historical records and forgotten voices, Reynolds explores the tension between settlement, dispossession, humanitarianism, and national identity.

Rather than presenting a conventional political history, the book focuses on the individuals who experienced moral conflict about frontier violence and Aboriginal dispossession, revealing an often-overlooked history of dissent and ethical resistance.