Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century

by Philip A. Clarke

Hardcover, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

333.9530899915

Collection

Publication

Rosenberg Publishing (2008), Hardcover, 191 pages

Description

"The impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants." --Provided by publisher.

User reviews

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An excellent review of early Australian botanists, including women settlers, many of whom employed Aboriginal workers as collectors. Also includes accounts of the dangerous explorations of the interior of the continent, and the survival plant foods of the Native peoples.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

191 p.

ISBN

1877058688 / 9781877058684
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