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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.
- Subject
- 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