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Book

Author
Magarey, Alexander Thomas
Title
Australian Aboriginal tracking, water finding and smoke signaling
Imprint
Hesperian Press, Carlisle, W.A., 2015, 28 pp
ISBN/ISSN
9780859056168
Format
Print
Description

Includes reprints of: "Smoke signals of the Australian Aboriginal" (from Report of meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1893); "Aboriginal water quest" (from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (session 1894-5); and "Tracking by the Australian Aboriginal" (from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (1897).

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