ISBN10: 0959182810, ISBN13: 9780959182811, [publisher: Focus Education Services, Perth, Australia] Softcover Reprint. ii, 238pp, with occasional illustrations, charts etc in text. In laminated, illustrated card covers. 8vo. Very gently edge wear to card covers, else neat, clean, bright and tight. A history of early European settlement in Western Australia, in a land inhabited by the Nyungar people, describing the impact of Europeans on Nyungar society and continuing interactions among cultural groups during the first 25 years of colonisation.
[Canterbury, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]
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ISBN10: 0959182810, ISBN13: 9780959182811, [publisher: Focus Education Services, Perth] Softcover Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, maps, crease top corner tip front cover, top spine little bumped, faint crease bottom corner first three pages, minor edgewear, sticker mark flyleaf, autograph (author's written dedication title page). 238 pp. Neville Green records the history of the Nyungar People at the time of early settlement of southwest Australia. He assesses the impact Europeans had on the Nyungar society and describes the continuing interaction of the Aboriginal and European cultural groups during the first 25 years of European colonisation. Includes chapters on Yagan and Midgegooroo, the Aboriginal prison at Rottnest Island, the Battle of Pinjarra. Appendix 1: Aboriginal and Settler Conflict in Western Australia 1826-1852. Appendix 2: Aboriginal Conflict in the South West of Australia 1830-1850. Appendix 3: Major epidemics and illnesses occurring in Western Australia 1830-1895. (Written dedication states: "To Liz Lowrie, for a great Aboriginal history conference 18/5/98".).
[Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 1984]