Following the Equator : a journey around the world / by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
- Bib ID:
- 2068009
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Description:
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- Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1897
- 712 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Summary:
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Includes an account of the author's visit to Australia; [p.206ff] use of the weet weet and general comments on Aboriginal population numbers and the impact of colonisation; satirical comments on colonisation and genocide; problem of land ownership and frontier violence; comments on the beneficial use of poison by colonists and the savagery of the colonist; Ch. XXII: Material culture and social customs; p. [214ff] contradictory characteristics of the Aborigines; physical dexterity ? throwing and parrying, well digging, stalking, drawing, and endurance of pain; Ch. XXVII p. [256ff] comments on the violent colonisation of Tasmania - the Black War in Tasmania; Governor Davey's proclamation to the Aborigines (illustration facing p. 259); p. 260- 265 - activities of George Augustus Robinson and the extinction of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
- Notes:
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- BAL notes one trade and one deluxe issue and that both issues appear also in a dual imprint.
- LC has trade issue.
- Source: Source unknown.
- Cited In:
- BAL 3451
- Subject:
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- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Journeys
- Voyages around the world
- Indigenous peoples
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Race relations - Violent
- Material culture
- Culture
- Gender relations
- Weapons - Boomerangs - Throwing
- Art - Drawing
- Health - Treatments - Traditional
- Water supply - Wells and bores
- Colonisation
- Equator
- South Africa
- India
- Tasmania (Tas)
- New Zealand (NZ)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1910
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1897
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