| Description |
xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- The twig is bent -- It is time for us to go, to go -- Melbourne: the frontier town -- Howitt adventurers -- Off to the diggings again -- The wild colonial boy -- Cabbages and cows -- Howitt the explorer -- Gippsland gold -- The search for Burke and Wills -- The second journey -- Turning point: the death of charlton -- Marriage and mountains -- Health and saddle -- I now see clearly -- The dawn of Australian anthropology -- Howitt and Fison -- Howitt and commissioner -- Laurel Wreaths -- Howitt the geologist / John A. Talent -- The ascent of Aboriginal man: Howitt as anthropologist / D. J. Mulvaney -- Appendixes -- A. W. Howitt's geological publications -- A. W. Howitt's anthropological publications -- A message to anthropologists -- Howitt's 1874 questionnaire -- Questionnaire to informants |
| Summary |
Mainly biographical but also includes essay by D.J. Mulvaney - The ascent of Aboriginal man; Howitt as anthropologist (catalogued separately); Appendices include; 2) A.W. Howitts anthropological publications; 3) Text of; A message to anthropologists (1908); 4) Howitts 1874 questionnaire; 5) Questionnaire to informants |
| Analysis |
Howitt, A. W (Alfred William) 1830-1908 |
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Howitt, A. W. Alfred William 1830-1908 |
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Howitt, A.W (Alfred William) 1830-1908 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908.
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Mulvaney, D. J. (Derek John), 1925-2016.
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Anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Explorers -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography.
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Geologists -- Australia -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- 1851-1901 -- Biography
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Tylee Memorial Collection
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| LC no. |
75026404 |
| ISBN |
0522839622 |
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