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Author Chessel, Gwen

Title Alexander Collie : colonial surgeon, naturalist and explorer / Gwen Chessel
Published Crawley, W.A. : The Charles and Joy Staples South West Region Publications Fund, University of Western Australia Press, 2008

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 MELB  610.92 Collie Che/Acc  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Contents Scholar and apprentice--Assistant surgeon--Student once more--HMS Gannet--HMS Blossom--HMS Sulphur--Swan River--Mokkare and his world--King George Sound--Colonial surgeon--Last journey--Alexander's legacy
Summary "A biography of Alexander Collie."--Publisher
Analysis Collie, Alexander, 1793-1835
Explorers - Western Australia - Biography
Physicians - Western Australia - Biography
Swan River Settlement (W.A.)
Western Australia - History - 19th century
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 193-215
Subject Collie, Alexander, 1793-1835.
Collie, Alexander.
Mokare, approximately 1800-1831
Explorers -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography.
Naturalists -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography.
Physicians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography.
Surgeons -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography.
General Surgery.
Expeditions -- history.
General Surgery -- history.
History, 19th Century.
Science -- history.
SUBJECT Swan River Settlement (W.A.)
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
LC no. 2008411595
ISBN 9780980296532 (paperback)