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Aboriginal plant collectors : botanists and Australian aboriginal people in the nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clarke, Philip A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kenthurst, NSW : Rosenberg Pub., 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Human-plant relationships > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians > Food.
Aboriginal Australians > Medicine.
Aboriginal Australians > Ethnobotany.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Australia > History.
Botany > Australia > History.
Botanists > Australia > History.
Plant collecting > Australia > History.
Plant collectors > Australia > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Early explorers and aboriginal guides
  • Settlers and Australian plants
  • Making plant names
  • George Caley in New South Wales
  • Allan Cunningham and the mapping of Australia
  • Resident plant collectors and aboriginal people
  • Leichhardt and the riddle of inland Australia
  • Von Mueller and Australian botany
  • Inland explorers and aboriginal knowledge
  • The study of aboriginal plant use.