Description |
iv, 177 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps (some colour) ; 24 cm + 1 large folded-out replica map in a pocket of the inside back cover |
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regular print |
Contents |
'Duties of a particulary harassing nature': Thomas Baines and the north Australian expedition of 1855-57 -- 'No region of the earth presents a greater geographical problem': the imperial context of the Gregory expedition to northern Australia -- 'Cooeing to the natives': Thomas Baines's encounters with the Other on the north Australian expedition of 1855-57 -- Thomas Baines: the heroic figure in the landscape -- Manuscript map by Thomas Baines depicting the tracks of the brigantine Messenger and her longboat in 1856 -- Thomas Baines: extracts of journals kept during the north Australian expedition, 30 January 1856-3 April 1857 |
Summary |
This book focuses on a little known but fascinating contribution by Thomas Baines to Augustus Gregory's North Australian Expedition: the artist-explorer's audacious attempt, in an open longboat with two companions, to link up with Gregory at the Albert River at the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria |
Analysis |
Australian |
Notes |
"Large fold-out replica map" --Cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
General |
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Tertiary/Undergraduate |
Subject |
Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875 -- Travel -- Australia.
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Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875 -- Travel -- Australia, Northern.
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Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875.
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Gregory, Augustus Charles, 1819-1905 -- Travel -- Australia.
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Gregory, Augustus Charles, 1819-1905 -- Travel -- Australia, Northern.
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Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Aboriginal Australians in art.
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Artists -- Australia, Northern.
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Explorers -- Australia, Northern.
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Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Messengers -- Australia.
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SUBJECT |
Australia, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010749 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
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Australia, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010749 -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
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Carpentaria, Gulf of, Region (N.T. and Qld.) -- Discovery and exploration
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Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
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Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1851-1901
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Author |
Carruthers, Jane, editor
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Stiebel, Lindy, editor
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National Museum of Australia, issuing body
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LC no. |
2012452004 |
ISBN |
9781921953002 (paperback) |
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