Saltwater world -- Highways in the stream -- With the colonists -- Passage to Norfolk Island -- Benelong's voyages -- Indigenous pioneers -- Exiles -- Musquito and the bulldog -- Dual : sentenced and reprieved -- Tristan : a runaway into Rio -- With the explorers -- Gnung-a Gnung-a in North America and Hawii -- Worogan and Yeranabie on Lady Nelson -- Bungaree : sailing with Matthew Flinders -- Daniel Moowattin in Regency London -- Bowen Bungaree at Moreton Bay and San Francisco -- Sealing and whaling -- Searlers -- Boatswain Maroot in the sub-Antarctic -- Whalers -- Hawkesbury River sailors -- Tom Chaseland : whaling in New Zealand
Summary
Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in the Australia's early maritime history. It's focus is on the Indigenous people who sailed on English ships through Port Jackson to destinations throughout the world in the period 1790-1850
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index
