| Description |
264 pages ; 22cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
"The subject of The Savage Crows (1976) is the love life of a young man, Stephen Crisp, as he collects material for a thesis on the extermination of Tasmanian Aborigines - the Parlevar people - who after 50 years battling introduced diseases and frontier war, had been reduced from maybe 15,000 people down to a couple of hundred. In 1833 those few remaining tribespeople were persuaded by missionary George Robinson, acting on behalf of Lieutenant Governor George Arthur, to permit themselves to be removed to Flinders Island in Bass Strait, north of Tasmania."--Publisher website |
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Novel concerning extinction of Tasmanian Aborigines; author's note that characterisatons of G.A. Robinson and Truganini bears resemblance to their known personalities, however backdrop of events while based on research, includes some fictionalised reconstruction; author recommends novel not to be used for factual study |
| Analysis |
Novels in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts |
| Notes |
N copy signed and inscriber by author, 17 September 2015. ANL |
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Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
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Copy 3 - donation from Rhys Maengwyn Jones collection |
| Subject |
Robinson, George Augustus, -1866.
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Truganini, approximately 1812-1876.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Fiction.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History -- Fiction.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians, Treatment of -- Fiction
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Australian fiction -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
77361821 |
| ISBN |
0002215896 (hardback) |
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