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Author Clarke, Philip A.

Title Aboriginal plant collectors : botanists and Australian Aboriginal people in the nineteenth century / Philip A. Clarke
Edition First edition
Published Dural, N.S.W. : Rosenberg Publishing, 2008

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 W'PONDS  333.9530899915 Cla/Apc  AVAILABLE
Description 191 pages : color illustrations, map, portrait ; 30 cm
Contents Early explores and Aboriginal guides--Settlers and Australian plants--Finding bush tucker--Bush medicine--Making plant names--From Aboriginal terms to Australian English words--George Caley in New South Wales--Allan Cunningham and the mapping of Australia--Resident plant collectors and Aboriginal people--James Drummond, Government Naturalist in southwest Western Australia--Leichhardt and the riddle of inland Australia--Across northern Australia--Von Mueller and Australian botany--Collecting for the Baron--Inland explorers and Aboriginal knowledge--Burke and Wills--Defamation of a food--Study of Aboriginal plant use--Anthropology and the study of plants
Summary "The impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants." --Provided by publisher
Analysis Aboriginal australians
Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia)
Botanists
Botany & plant science (Australia)
Collectors (Occupation)
Ethnobotany
Exploration
History of science (Australia)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography pages 168-179
Subject Caley, George, 1770-1829.
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848.
Mueller, Ferdinand von, 1825-1896.
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnobotany.
Aboriginal Australians -- Food.
Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Australia.
Botanists -- Australia -- History.
Botanists -- Australia -- 19th century.
Botanists -- Australia.
Botany -- Australia -- History.
Botany -- Australia.
Endemic plants -- Australia.
Explorers -- Australia -- Mapping
Human-plant relationships -- Australia.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia -- History.
Plant collecting -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Plant collecting -- Australia -- History.
Plant collectors -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Plant collectors -- Australia -- History.
Plant collectors -- Australia -- 19th century.
Plant collectors -- Australia.
Plants, Useful -- Australia.
Ethnobotany.
History, 19th Century.
Oceanic Ancestry Group -- history.
Plants, Medicinal.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Australia -- ethnology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315Q000208
LC no. 2008411855
ISBN 1877058688
9781877058684 (hbk.)
Other Titles Botanists and Australian Aboriginal people in the nineteenth century