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Edited Book

Author
Chapman, Valerie C; Read, Peter
Title
Terrible hard biscuits: A reader in Aboriginal history
Imprint
Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, New South Wales, 1996, xv, 284 pp
ISBN/ISSN
1863739645 (paperback)
Format
Print
Description

From the Acknowledgements (page xii):
"The essays in this book originally appeared in the journal Aboriginal History with the following publication date, volumes and issue number: Chapter 2 1989, 13:1; Chapter 3 1987, 11:1; Chapter 4 1984, 8:2; Chapter 5 1991, 15:1; Chapter 6 1977, 1:1; Chapter 7 1990, 14:1; Chapter 8 1990, 14:1; Chapter 9 1983, 7:1; Chapter 10 1987, 11:1; Chapter 11 1987, 11:2; Chapter 12 1994, 18:1.

Contains illustrations, maps, bibliographies and index. Authors with entries in this Encyclopedia are listed below.

Abstract

Summary from the National Library of Australia:
"Collection of articles from the journal Aboriginal History designed to introduce a wider readership to the journals contribution to the knowledge of the history of Australian Aboriginal people; eleven papers chosen which; present materials not widely known, include Aboriginal peoples accounts of their experiences, deal with events in widely separated parts of the continent and together present a progression in time through two hundred years since European invasion; papers by Richard Baker, Philip Clarke, Henrietta Fourmile, Heather Goodall, Bowman Johnson, Isabel McBryde, Peter Read, Bob Reece, Scott Robinson, Lyndall Ryan and Elspeth Young are annotated separately."

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