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The world of John Boultbee : including an account of sealing in Australia and New Zealand / A. Charles Begg and Neil C. Begg.

Title
The world of John Boultbee : including an account of sealing in Australia and New Zealand / A. Charles Begg and Neil C. Begg.
Author
Begg, A. Charles
Publication
Christchurch : Whitcoulls, 1979.

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Additional Authors
Begg, Neil C. (Neil Colquhoun), 1915-1995
Description
329 p., [32] leaves : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Based on Boultbee's journal of his life as a sealer in Australia and Southern New Zealand during the 1820's and 1830's, when he also spent time living with Van Diemen's Land Aborigines and the Maoris of Foveaux Strait.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Sources
  • History.
  • Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The old world -- Van Diemen's Land -- Preservation Island -- King Island -- Phillip Island -- Return to Hobart Town -- Interlude at Port Macquarie -- The Hawkesbury sealers -- Sealing in Fiordland -- The Maoris of Foveaux Strait -- Stewart Island -- The aborigines of Van Diemen's Land -- Bay whaling -- The last journeys -- Appendices A: Observations concerning the Southern Maoris: settlements ; people ; dialect, vocabulary and song -- B: Robert Murry's journal, New South Wales, 1792-5 -- C: Edwin Palmer and the Sally, 1825-6.
ISBN
0723306044
LCCN
^^^81461483^
OCLC
  • 7575067
  • SCSB-11547261
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library