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Author Carruthers, Jane.

Title Thomas Baines : exploring tropical Australia, 1855 to 1857 / edited by Jane Carruthers and Lindy Stiebel
Edition First edition
Published Canberra ACT : National Museum of Australia, 2012
Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, ©2012

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Description iv, 177 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps (some colour) ; 24 cm + 1 large folded-out replica map in a pocket of the inside back cover
regular print
Contents 'Duties of a particulary harassing nature': Thomas Baines and the north Australian expedition of 1855-57 -- 'No region of the earth presents a greater geographical problem': the imperial context of the Gregory expedition to northern Australia -- 'Cooeing to the natives': Thomas Baines's encounters with the Other on the north Australian expedition of 1855-57 -- Thomas Baines: the heroic figure in the landscape -- Manuscript map by Thomas Baines depicting the tracks of the brigantine Messenger and her longboat in 1856 -- Thomas Baines: extracts of journals kept during the north Australian expedition, 30 January 1856-3 April 1857
Summary This book focuses on a little known but fascinating contribution by Thomas Baines to Augustus Gregory's North Australian Expedition: the artist-explorer's audacious attempt, in an open longboat with two companions, to link up with Gregory at the Albert River at the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria
Analysis Australian
Notes "Large fold-out replica map" --Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience General
Tertiary/Undergraduate
Subject Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875 -- Travel -- Australia.
Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875 -- Travel -- Australia, Northern.
Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875.
Gregory, Augustus Charles, 1819-1905 -- Travel -- Australia.
Gregory, Augustus Charles, 1819-1905 -- Travel -- Australia, Northern.
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Aboriginal Australians in art.
Artists -- Australia, Northern.
Explorers -- Australia, Northern.
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Messengers -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010749 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
Australia, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010749 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
Carpentaria, Gulf of, Region (N.T. and Qld.) -- Discovery and exploration
Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1851-1901
Author Carruthers, Jane, editor
Stiebel, Lindy, editor
National Museum of Australia, issuing body
LC no. 2012452004
ISBN 9781921953002 (paperback)
Other Titles Thomas Baines : exploring tropical Australia, eighteen hundred and fifty five to eighteen hundred and fifty seven