Title Knocking about : being some adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia / edited by Mrs Albert T. Leatherbee ; with an introduction by Edwin Howard Brigham ; illustrated by the writer

Published Wangaratta : Shoestring Press, 1984

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Description xvii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents Includes index Summary p.71-72; Skeletons found cave Moorundi Beach; p.87-90; Goolwa mortuary rites, embalming; Chap.11; Murrumbidgee tribes, camps, food, hunting, cooking, curing skins, belief in evil spirits, mortuary rites, mourning, weapons; Recreations, dances, E.S.P., liquor from nadoo beans, drunkenness Notes Dustjacket subtitle: An American captain on the Murray Facsim. reprint. First published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1924 Includes index Subject Peirce, Augustus Baker, 1840-1919 Inland water transportation -- Australia -- Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- History. Ship captains -- Australia -- Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- Biography. Genre/Form Autobiographies. Author Leatherbee, E. B. (Ethel Brigham) ISBN 0959839186

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