Book, Baker, D.W.A, The civilised surveyor : Thomas Mitchell and the Australian Aborigines, 1997

Physical description

xv, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Summary

By the 1830's the squatters were poised to extend theri runs over eastern Australia and so dispossess untold thousands of Aboriginal families of their land. Mitchell witnessed at first hand some of the worst years of a monstrous and incomprehensible disaster. More than that, his work directly assisted in this destruction.

Keywords

mitchell,
thomas,
sir,
1792-1855 -- relations with aborigines,
australian -- new south wales. | mitchell,
thomas,
sir,
1792-1855 -- journeys -- new south wales. | aboriginal australians -- new south wales -- first contact with europeans. | aboriginal australians -- first contact with europeans.

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Book, Baker, D.W.A, The civilised surveyor : Thomas Mitchell and the Australian Aborigines, 1997

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