Australasiatic reminiscences of twenty-three years' wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias : including travels with Dr. Leichhardt in north or tropical Australia / by Daniel Bunce
- Bib ID:
- 1222310
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bunce, Daniel, 1813-1872
- Description:
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- Melbourne : J.T. Hendy, 1857
- iii, 216 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. ; 18 cm.
- Series:
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- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK1918.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK5029.
- Summary:
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Chap.4; incidents in relation to the Aborigines at Hobart town; Chap.8; Tasmania - womens life, body decoration, clothing and scarification; Chap.9; Native chiefs with Buckley, the Wild white man; Chap.11; Journey to Westernport with natives (Derrimut, Benbow and Yammabook), foods - kangaroo and native porcupine; duties of women; Chap.12; Leichhardts journey, native names of flowers, fruits, etc. (Condamine River area); foods, treacherous natives near Fitzroy Downs.
- Notes:
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- Errata after contents.
- Library's FER F7664 (FC) copy in original paper boards; front cover bears the booksellers label of A.B. Scott, Swanston Street, Melbourne.
- Library's NK1918 copy in blue box bearing the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1857/9); rebound in paper boards.
- Library's NK5029 copy in green box bearing the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1857/31); inscribed in ink, 13 June 1860 on front fly leaf and with the name of a previous owner on half title: "Thomas Edwin P[?] Gift of Louis Fishell, Melbourne Australia Sept. 20th / 59".
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK1918, NK5029.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 7664
- Subject:
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- Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848
- Leichhardt Expedition, (1846-1847)
- Botany -- Queensland
- Botany -- Tasmania
- Body - Decoration
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Gathering - Honey
- Costume and clothing
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Food
- Body - Scarification
- Food - Meat - Kangaroo / Wallaby
- Food - Meat - Echidna
- Hunting
- Language - Vocabulary
- Queensland -- Discovery and exploration
- Tasmania -- Description and travel -- To 1850
- Victoria -- Description and travel -- To 1850
- Hobart (SE Tas SK55-08)
- Western Port (Vic SJ55-09)
- Condamine River (SE Qld SG56)
- Also Titled:
- Bunces Australasiatic reminiscences.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1872
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1857
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