Description |
xvi, 261 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm |
Contents |
1. "The wild white man" -- 2. "Jemmy Morrill's" exile -- 3. "Duramboi" and "Wandi -- 4. White woman among cannibals -- 5. The headhunters' captives -- 6. "Timor Joe" -- 7. With black "Indians" -- 8. Captive of the anthropophagi -- 9. Wild white women -- 10. De Rougemont's adventures -- 11. Louis of New Guinea -- 12. Blacks and bushrangers -- 13. Rutherford, the white chief -- 14. Bruce and Burns |
Summary |
Stories of William Buckley (1835) - Victoria; Sammy Cox or Samuel Emanuel Jervis (1789) - Tasmania; James Murrells or Jemmy Morrill (1846) - Qld.; James Davis called Duramboi & Wandi Bracefield or Bracefell (1826) - Wide Bay, Qld.; Mrs. Fraser (1835) - Qld. on the Stirling Castle; wreck of the Charles Eaton, survivors were John Ireland and William DOyley (1834) - Murray Is.; Thomas Pamphlet, Richard Parsons, John Finnegan (1823) Moreton Bay; William Jackman (1836) - Great Australian Bight; Barbara Thomson (1848) - Cape York; Chapter on Aborigines and bushrangers |
Analysis |
Australian Aborigines |
Notes |
Illustrations on lining papers |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references to New Zealand |
Subject |
Bruce, George, 1779-
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Burns, Barnet, approximately 1807-
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Fraser, Eliza.
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Rutherford, John, 1796-
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Bushrangers -- Australia.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Oceania.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia.
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Local studies collection
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Maori (New Zealand people)
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Pioneers -- Australia.
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Survival.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs.
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Wild men.
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Wilderness survival -- Australia.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
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New Zealand -- History -- To 1840.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091504
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Oceania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Oceania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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LC no. |
49022746 |
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