From the edge : Australia's lost histories / Mark McKenna.
From the edge : Australia's lost histories / Mark McKenna.
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Publisher
Carlton, Vic. : The Meigunyah Press an imprint Melbourne University Publishing, 2017.
Call Numbers
H 2018/1560
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Language
English
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Physical content
251 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
still image
cartographic image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Eyeing the country -- Walking the edge: South-East Australia, 1797 -- 'World's End': Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, West Arnhem Land -- 'Hip bone sticking out': Murujuga and the legacy pf the Pilbara frontier -- On grassy hill: Gangaar (Cooktown), North Queensland.
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Publisher
Carlton, Vic. : The Meigunyah Press an imprint Melbourne University Publishing, 2017.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
In From the Edge, historian Mark McKenna uncovers the places and histories that Australians are so often ignorant of. Like the largely forgotten story of the sailors’ walk in 1797, these remarkable histories, for example the founding of a ‘new Singapore’ in West Arnhem Land in the 1840s, the site of some extraordinary Indigenous rock art, or James...
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Full title
From the edge : Australia's lost histories / Mark McKenna.
Portion of title
Australia's lost histories
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General note
Second numbered series of the Miegunyah volumes ; no. 171
Reprinted 2017.
"This is number one hundred and seventy-one in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes made possible by the Miegunyah Fund established by bequests under the wills of Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade".
Includes bibliography and index.
Mitchell Library copy at H 2018/1560 : Submission for Premier's Literary Award 2018...
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Awards
"Prime Minister's literary award 2012 winner"-- Cover.
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H 2018/1560
Record Identifier
74VKVoAMapJd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVoAMapJd
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ISBN
9780522862591
DDC
994.02
MMS ID
991024169115402626
