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To sail beyond the sunset : natural history in Australia, 1699-1829 / C.M. Finney.
Record no.:
4186
Author:
Finney, C. M. (Colin Michael), 1950-;
Publisher:
Adelaide :: Rigby,
Year:
1984.
Description:
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Subject:
Naturalists - Australia - History - 1699-1829.;
Naturalists - Australia Biography.;
Natural history - Australia - History.;
Natural history - Australia.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration - History.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0727018817 :;
Abstract:
Traces the development of natural history in Australia, beginning with the first discoveries of Dampier and of the later naturalists who followed in the wake of explorers and military surveyors.
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