Lizard Island : the journey of Mary Watson / Suzanne Falkiner & Alan Oldfield
- Bib ID:
- 705798
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Falkiner, Suzanne, 1952-
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2000
- 235 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1865084735 (hardback)
- 1865085286 (limited ed)
- Summary:
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Illustrated account of Mary Watson's escape with her baby and a wounded Chinese workman after an attack by mainland Aborigines on her absent husband's Lizard Island station; travelling by sea for eight days in a cut-down ship's water tank before dying of thirst on an Island off Cape Flattery in Far North Queensland; early encounters between European explorers and Aborigines of Far North Queensland; recollection and stories of Aboriginal decendants of Lizard Island Aborigines; massacre of Aborigines at Cape Flattery.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Library's SRq copy is limited edition no.159/200, in blue cloth custom made box; signed by the author with original Alan Oldfield etching with blind emboss loosely inserted.
- Bibliography.
- Subject:
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- Watson, Mary Beatrice, 1860-1881
- Pioneers -- Queensland -- Cooktown region -- Biography
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Guugu Yimidhirr / Gugu Yimithirr / Kuku Yimidhirr people (Y82) (Qld SD55-13)
- Settlement and contacts - Chinese
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Race relations
- Literature and stories - Non fiction
- Lizard Island (Qld.)
- Cooktown (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Lizard Island (Qld SE Cape York SD55-09)
- Hope Vale (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Oldfield, Alan
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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