Title Shipwrecks and seafarers' scandals : true tales from colonial Queensland and the South Pacific / Tony Matthews

Published Rockhampton, Qld. : Central Queensland University Press, 2000

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W'PONDS	363.12309943 Mat/Sas		AVAILABLE

Description 250 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm Summary From the stormy coast of colonial Queensland in the 19th century to massacres, piracy and cannibals in the South Pacific, blacklegging the kanakas, the horrific plight of the immigrants and the stern processes of the law Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 243-4 Subject Seafaring life -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes. Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century. SUBJECT Queensland -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481 -- 1824-1900 Queensland -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 Genre/Form Anecdotes. Author Matthews, Tony, 1949- LC no. 2001411931 ISBN 1875998861

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