- Paperback
204 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2017
Summary
In 1908, English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle, and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches, and in sheep paddocks, he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But in the remotest corners of the island, Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities.
Into the Heart of Tasmania tells a story of dis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522867961 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522867960 |
| Author: | Rebe Taylor |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 204 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 153mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Rebe Taylor
Dr. Rebe Taylor is a historian specializing in Tasmanian anthropology and archaeology. She first encountered Tasmanian Aboriginal history on a beach on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, hearing stories about the women who had been taken there by sealers. She has been trying to understand the history of Tasmanian Aboriginal diaspora, loss, rediscovery and endurance ever since.
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