Into the Heart of Tasmania

Into the Heart of Tasmania

In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the...

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Main Author: Taylor, Rebe
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2017
Subjects:
Westlake, Ernest, > 1855-1922.
Aboriginal Tasmanians > Antiquities > Collection and preservation.
Aboriginal Tasmanians > Implements > History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians > Land tenure.
Aboriginal Tasmanians > Languages > Sources.
Ethnologists > England > Biography.
Aboriginal Tasmanians > History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians > Social life and customs.
Anthropology > Australia > Tasmania > History.
Archaeology > Australia > Tasmania > History.
Tasmania > History > 20th century.
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