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Author Gibson, Ross

Title 26 Views of the Starburst World : William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788-1791
Published Portland : UWA Publishing, 2012

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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
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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Subject Dawes, William, 1762-1836 -- Biography
SUBJECT Dawes, William, 1762-1836 fast
Subject Astronomers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- History -- 18th century
Aboriginal Australians
Astronomers
SUBJECT New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
Subject New South Wales
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781742584249
1742584241