Item 309 - "A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago" and other extracts and publications

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AU ANUA 484-309

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"A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago" and other extracts and publications

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  • 19th Century (Creation)

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Shineberg, Dorothy
(1927 - 2004)

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Australian National University Archives

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Various photocopies of publications including Warwick M. Tompkins, Sr. and Captain Edmund French Clay ""Blackbirding" in New Guinea"; "A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago", author unknown; newspaper clippings regarding Captain John Strachan; Captain McKenzie "Observations on Making the Passage to the Eastward Through Torres Strait, and the Monsoons in the Timour (sic) Sea", The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, March 1847; "Trepang", Nautical magazine 1870; "Massacres at the Sandalwood Islands", Sydney Morning Herald, June 24, 1850; and more

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