The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840Includes effects on Australian Aboriginal people of first European contact, exploration, colonisation and settlement from James Cook to Daisy Bates; this edition enhanced by 150 illustrations and additional information and captions by Ann Moyal; subsistence and material culture illustrated. |
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Aborigines Adventure Alan Moorehead animals Antarctic arioi arrived artist ashore Augustus Earle Australia Banks Beaglehole Bennelong birds Bligh boats Botany Bay Bougainville breadfruit British bush canoes Captain cloth coast colour convicts Cook Cook's crew Daisy Bates dancing death Endeavour England English European expedition exploration Eyre fire fish Flinders Forster French George Tobin girls ground island John Joseph Banks journal journey kangaroo King George Sound land later lived London marines Matavai Bay Melville miles missionaries natives natural never night noble savage Obarea Omai Otaheite Pacific painting Papeete Phillip Pomare Port Jackson Resolution sailed sailors savage seemed settlement ship ship's shore skin Solander South Sea South Wales spears Sydney Parkinson Tahiti Tahitians Tasmania Tasmanian Aborigines tattooing thing tion took trees tribes tropical Tupia Venus Wallis whaling wild William Hodges women wrote Wylie young Zealand