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208 pages ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
Summary |
The first entry of this diary by Dorothy Rook was on the 23rd March 1958 in England. She then embarked from Southampton for Melbourne in September 1959, keeping a detailed record of all bird sightings en route with location and descriptions noted. Her Australian diary begins on 1st January 1960 by which time she records that she has seen 66 native bird species despite not doing 'as much bird-watching as I should since I came to Australia'. The journal covers her field work on Flinders Island and other locations in Bass Strait, in Cassilis, Central West New South Wales and in Western Australia where she worked alongside renowned Australian naturalists Dominic and Vincent Serventy |
Notes |
A hardcovered lined exercise book. Title is handwritten by pencil on t.p |
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Bookseller' s title: An ornithologist's manuscript journal: Bass Strait, New South Wales, Western Australia, 1959-1962 |
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With: A list of the birds of Cassilis, N.S.W. (2 pages) a handwritten poem: Evening at Donga (2 pages) and a story titled "The kangaroo family" in which Dorothy Rook is reminiscing about her time in Western Australia where she met a "Mrs Lewis and the wild kangaroos she had trained to come for food." |
Subject |
Rook, Dorothy
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Serventy, Vincent, 1925-
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Serventy, D. L. (Dominic Louis), 1904-1988.
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Ornithology -- Australia.
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Ornithologists -- Diaries.
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Genre/Form |
Diaries.
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