Journal of Landsborough's expedition from Carpentaria, in search of Burke & Wills : with a map showing his route / by William Landsborough ; introduction by Valmai Hankel
- Bib ID:
- 128434
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Landsborough, William, 1825-1886
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2000
- 128 p. ; 23 cm. 1 folded map in back pocket.
- ISBN:
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- 1876154314
- 1876154322 (deluxe)
- Series:
- Australiana facsimile editions ; no. 221.
- Summary:
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Encounters with natives, Albert River, Mary Lake, Herbert River (circumcised natives); Flinders River - p. 83; Aboriginal women with cooIamons filled with rats, offer of Aboriginal wives of men who had run away to the explorers by Aboriginal women; children with bone inserted through nose; Bourne Creek; native attack on Barcoo River; Gifts given of clothes, needle, thread, broken bottle ; p. 97 explorers shown the way to Barcoo River INCOMPLETE.
- Notes:
- Facsimile reprint. First published: Melbourne : F.F. Bailliere, 1862.
- Subject:
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- Burke and Wills Expedition, (1860-1861)
- Landsborough Expedition, (1861-1862)
- Explorers -- Australia
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Costume and clothing - Nose pegs and piercing
- Hunting
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Technology - Containers - Coolamons
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- Herbert River (NE Qld SE55-05, SE55-09)
- Albert River (Burketown, Qld Gulf SE54-06)
- Barcoo River (Qld Far West SG54, SG55)
- Gulf of Carpentaria (SD53, SD54, SE54)
- Queensland Gulf country (Qld SE54)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Flinders River (Qld Gulf SE54-06)
- Bourne Creek (Qld NE Cape York SD54-08)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Until 2050 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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