Tiger lilies : women adventurers in the South Pacific / Shirley Fenton Huie
- Bib ID:
- 1150409
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Huie, Shirley Fenton
- Description:
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- North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1990
- 218 p. : ill., ports., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0207165920 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Stories of European women in the Pacific as explorers, missionary wives, businesswomen, botanists; mention of Aborigines in stories of Rose de Freycinet on Western Australian coast, and meeting children in Sydney with Governor Macquarie, and botanist Amalie Dietrich rescued from drowning near Rockhampton by Aborigines.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 208-215.
- Subject:
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- Women travelers -- Oceania -- History
- Adventure and adventurers -- Oceania -- History
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Oceania -- Description and travel
- Rockhampton (E Qld SF56-13)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Gascoyne / Murchison area (WA SG50)
- Pacific Islands
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
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