The Great Barrier Reef of Australia : its products and potentialities / by W. Saville-Kent
- Bib ID:
- 2863301
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Saville-Kent, W. (William), -1908
- Description:
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- London : W.H. Allen, [1893]
- xii, 387 pages, 64 leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 36 cm.
- Summary:
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p.321; Method of catching turtle by sucking fish; p.227; Aborigines employed in beche-de-mer fisheries; p.328; Method of capturing dugong, description of spear used; p.314; Remains of fishweir at Darnley Island; p.124; Native names for Torres Strait Islands.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Library's SR copy is a presentation binding with an elaborate cover in gold.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 11105
- Subject:
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- Animals - Invertebrates - Crustacea and molluscs - Beche-de-mer / Trepang
- Hunting - Dugong
- Hunting - Turtle
- Fishing - Fish weirs
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Weapons - Spears
- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
- Erub / Darnley Island (Qld TSI SC54-08)
- Great Barrier Reef (SD55, SE55, SF56)
- Queensland South East Cape York (Qld SD54, SD55)
- Northeast Queensland (NE Qld SE55)
- 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):
- 1908
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1893
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