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James Erskine Calder (–1882)

Teoksen The native tribes of Tasmania tekijä

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Very nicely bound and printed book, published by Sullivan’s Cove in 1985.

https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Publishing.htm

Written by James Calder in 1876 for the Tasmanian Tribune, it was based from his diary from 1848 where he had been to several places in Southern Tasmania to re-install survey trigonomic stations that had been destroyed in bushfires.

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/calder-james-erskine-1865

A little bland in some of his descriptions about the land, as most Europeans seemed to dislike the Australian bush, it is made better by some humorous interactions around the convict prison of Port Arthur with police and guards patrolling for absconders. As Calder points out most police and guards were ex-convicts so were rascals and he couldn’t treat them ‘jaw to jaw’ like in the settled district as it was a very isolated area.

Calder also had an interest in botany and biology, he described a couple of the species he found on his rambles like Richea pandanifolia and Janthina fragilis which both get a mention in the local Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science.
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SubEuclid | Jun 8, 2021 |

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