Aboriginal plant collectors : botanists and Australian Aboriginal people in the nineteenth century
Clarke, Philip A.2008
Books, Manuscripts
Explores the impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants, spanning the period from the expansion of world exploration in the 17th century to the beginning of systematic scientific studies in the late 19th century
Main title:
Author:
Imprint:
Dural Rosenberg Publishing 2008
Collation:
191 p. colour illustrations map
Contents:
Early explores and Aboriginal guides--Settlers and Australian plants--Finding bush tucker--Bush medicine--Making plant names--From Aboriginal terms to Australian English words--George Caley in New South Wales--Allan Cunningham and the mapping of Australia--Resident plant collectors and Aboriginal people--James Drummond, Government Naturalist in southwest Western Australia--Leichhardt and the riddle of inland Australia--Across northern Australia--Von Mueller and Australian botany--Collecting for the Baron--Inland explorers and Aboriginal knowledge--Burke and Wills--Defamation of a food--Study of Aboriginal plant use--Anthropology and the study of plants
ISBN:
9781877058684 (hbk)
Dewey class:
333.953 ABR
Local class:
333.953
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
134668
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 333.953 ABR | Available |