Description |
1 online resource (291 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; About the Author; Other titles by Ross Gibson; Title Page; Copyright; Preview; Contents; 1: Pacing into Westminster; 2: Opening the Notebooks; 3: Dara -- Page One -- A Self-portrait; 4: Naa -- To See; 5: What Manner of Man?; 6: The Main Chance; 7: Event Grammar; 8: Air; 9: Reprise; 10: Erotics; 11: Divination -- A Personal Account; 12: Country, Creativity, Conjecture; 13: Said and Unsaid; 14: Drama; 15: The Resentful Entrepreneur; 16: Narrative; 17: New Versions of the Self; 18: What Did He Look Like?; 19: Tragedy; 20: The Other Maps; 21: Oceanic; 22: Blustertown; 23: But I Cannot Like Him |
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24: Tongue in the Air25: A Secular Mystic; 26: Exile From His New Self; List of Illustrations; Notes |
Summary |
In January 1788, astronomer and colonist William Dawes came to New South Wales' Botany Bay with the First Fleet Marines. He then came back into view in 1972, when a pair of slender 'language notebooks' - 80 small pages of limber handwriting - were discovered at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. These language notebooks are a crucial relic of the first four years of British colonization. In this book, author Ross Gibson continues his speculative brilliance on William Dawes, using Dawes' notebooks as source material. 26 Views of the Starburst World is an intellec |
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Print version record |
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Dawes, William, 1762-1836 -- Biography
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SUBJECT |
Dawes, William, 1762-1836 fast |
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Astronomers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians -- History -- 18th century
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Aboriginal Australians
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Astronomers
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New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
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New South Wales
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781742584249 |
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1742584241 |
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