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'The axe had never sounded' : place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania / John Mulvaney

Record no:

55636

Call no:

994.6 MUL

Author:

Mulvaney, D. J. (Derek John), 1925-2016

Publisher:

Canberra: ANU E Press

Year:

2007

Series:

Aboriginal history monograph ; 14

Description:

xxi, 141 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Historic sites - Tasmania - Recherche Bay;
Cultural property - Protection - Tasmania - Recherche Bay;
Recherche Bay (Tas.) - Discovery and exploration - French;
Recherche Bay (Tas.) - History;
Australian Aborigines - Tasmania - Recherche Bay;

French voyages - Australia;
Explorers, French - Australia;
Esperance (Ship);
Recherche (Ship);
Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d', 1737-1793;
Labillardiere, Jaques-Julien Houtou de, 1755-1834;
Cyprus (Brig);
Franklin, Jane, Lady, 1792-1875;
James Craig (Ship);

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Isbn:

9781921313219 (online)/9781921313202 (pbk.)

Notes:

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page or JSTOR

Type:

Book

Contents:

1. Setting Out -- The Officers -- The Savants -- Ships and Stores -- 2. Recherche Bay -- Recherche Bay, revisited summer 1793 -- 3. Naturalists Ashore -- 4. Botanising -- The Garden -- 5. Measuring and Charting -- 6. Seeking the Tasmanians -- 7. Meeting

the Tasmanians -- 8. An Archaeological Heritage -- 9. Labillardiere's Luck -- 10. Retrospect: Recherche Bay, History and Anthropology -- 11. The Chaotic Years -- Whaling -- Piracy on the Brig Cyprus -- 12. Lady Jane at Recherche Bay -- 13. Good and Bad Times -- Coal Mining -- James Craig -- 14. The Concept of Heritage -- 15. National Heritage Nomination -- References.

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Result	Links	Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
1		Maritime	Western Australian Museum	994.6 MUL	On Shelf