Tiffany Shellam’s Shaking Hands on the Fringe is an ethnohistory of the first years of contact and interaction between the British soldiers and the King Ya-nup people at King George’s Sound, from 1826 to the early 1830s. Rather than offering a narrative history per se , Shellam examines the emerging relationship episodically to elucidate broader understandings of the British and Indigenous people during this period.