George Robinson
Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines
$76.87
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
4 August 1992
Summary
Controversial study of George (‘Black’) Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia. A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment. This controversial study of George (‘Black’) Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect-a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribut…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522847444 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522847447 |
| Author: | Vivienne Rae-Ellis |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 4 August 1992 |
| Weight: | 405g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 152mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Melbourne University Press Australian Lives |
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Vivienne Rae-Ellis
Vivienne Rae-Ellis had a wide variety of working experience as a professional actress, newspaper columnist, radio script-writer and public relations officer before she began writing books. Among her many published titles are biographies of Trucanini and Louisa Anne Meredith.
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