191 pages : color illustrations, map, portrait ; 30 cm
Contents
Early explores and Aboriginal guides--Settlers and Australian plants--Finding bush tucker--Bush medicine--Making plant names--From Aboriginal terms to Australian English words--George Caley in New South Wales--Allan Cunningham and the mapping of Australia--Resident plant collectors and Aboriginal people--James Drummond, Government Naturalist in southwest Western Australia--Leichhardt and the riddle of inland Australia--Across northern Australia--Von Mueller and Australian botany--Collecting for the Baron--Inland explorers and Aboriginal knowledge--Burke and Wills--Defamation of a food--Study of Aboriginal plant use--Anthropology and the study of plants
Summary
"The impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants." --Provided by publisher