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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Melbourne :
Melbourne University Publishing,
2017
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past. --Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (211 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780522867978 0522867979 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
