Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.m.s. Rattlesnake

Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.m.s. Rattlesnake
Author: John Macgillivray
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781017779103

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Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded by the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. &c. During the Years 1846-1850

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded by the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. &c. During the Years 1846-1850
Author: John MacGillivray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 446
Release: 1852
Genre: Natural history
ISBN:

V.1, p.48-49; Natives of Moreton Is.; Porpoises used in fishing; Huts, etc.; p.81-83; Natives of Rockingham Bay; Canoes, etc.; Start of Kennedy expedition; p.118-119; Bird Islands - artefacts, canoes; p.120-127; Cape York - difficulty of obtaining vocabulary; Physical characters; Foods; p.145- 159; Port Essington - adornment, bodily ornament, bodily ornamentation, canoes, weapons, food, medicine men, death, burial, mythology, government, age-grading, marriage, music and songs, social sanctions, intertribal warfare, psychology,; missionary efforts; p.162-165; Cape York - Kennedy expedition p.167-168; Moreton Is. - camp life, fishing; p.300-325; Cape York - rescue of Barbara Thompson from Aborigines of Kaurareg tribe; Dancing; Fighting; Tree-climbing; Cooking; v.2, p.1- 32; Cape York - tribes (Gudang, Kaurareg, Muralaig); Papuan influence; Barter, warfare, revenge, cannibalism, marriage, polygamy, birth, food restrictions for women, mother-in-law avoidance, infanticide, naming, scarification, personal adornment, initiation; Canoes, weapons, huts, clothing; Foodgetting and cooking; Methods of fishing; Edible fruits and tubers; Government; Land-ownership; Mythology; Diseases and magic; Death and burial; p.33-49; Torres Straits islands Kulkalaig tribe; Canoes, huts, ceremonial screen, physical description, native names of islands; p.79-84; Theories as to origin of Aborigines; Racial characters of Torres Straits islanders; Linguistic affinities - Kaurareg and Miriam; p.119227; Statement of William Carron on Kennedy expedition; Encounters with friendly natives; Artefacts, weapons, ovens, other cooking methods; Farther north natives uniformly hostile; Princess Charlotte Bay area - huts and cooking places; Weymouth Bay - womens dress, foods, spears; p.228-236; Statement of Jackey Jackey; p.237-253; Statement of Dr. Vallack; p.277-316; Comparative vocabularies of Kowrarega and Gudang; Some 800 words Names of places; p.330-354; Remarks on the vocabularies, syntax, etc.; Similarities between Australian and Papuan dialects.

Saving the Reef

Saving the Reef
Author: Rohan Lloyd
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2022-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 070226721X

While in the past Australians wrestled with what the Reef is, today they are struggling to reconcile what it will be ... To do this, we need to understand the Reef' s intertwining human story. The Great Barrier Reef has come to dominate Australian imaginations and global environmental politics. Saving the Reef charts the social history of Australia' s most prized yet vulnerable environment, from the relationship between First Nations peoples and colonial settlers, to the Reef' s most portentous moment &– the Save the Reef campaign launched in the 1960s. Through this gripping narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, historian Rohan Lloyd reveals how the Reef' s continued decline is forcing us to reconsider what &‘ saving' the Reef really means.