Tasmania yesterday and today
- Bib ID:
- 2254539
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Skemp, John Rowland, 1900-1965
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Macmillan, 1958
- 246 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Summary:
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Concise history of the development of Tasmania ; includes section entitled "The Aborigines" describing the origins and culture of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Tasmania prior to the arrival of European settlers (pp.1-11) ; discusses foods found along the shore line (pp.13-20) and the plants and animals found in the bushland that were hunted and gathered by the first Tasmanians (pp.21-40) ; outlines the systematic extermination of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Tasmania by the European settlers (pp.149-154).
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Indigenous knowledge - Botany
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Indigenous knowledge - Zoology
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
- Tasmania -- History
- Tasmania -- Description and travel
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2035 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1965
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1958
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