Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys - Softcover
This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men and women played in Australia's early maritime history. Its focus is the Indigenous people who sailed on English ships through Port Jackson to destinations throughout the world in the period 1790-1850. Theirs was a canoe culture and they called the foreign ships mari nawi, meaning 'large canoes.' With remarkable resilience, they became guides, go-betweens, boatmen, sailors, sealers, steersmen, whalers, pilots, and trackers - valued for their skills and knowledge. Some, such as Musquito, Bulldog, and Dual, were exiled as Aboriginal 'convicts.' These seafarers faced cruel seas, winds, and currents. Some survived shipwrecks or were marooned for months without supplies on isolated islands. They sailed the Australian coast to sealing and whaling grounds in Bass Strait, to the icy sub-Antarctic and New Zealand, and to international destinations like Timor, Mauritius, Bengal, Britain, Canada, Hawaii, Tahiti, San Francisco, and Rio de Janeiro. Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys is illustrated with rarely seen portraits, landscapes, and ship images by English, French, and Russian artists. The book is based on previously unpublished sources, such as ship's musters, logs, journals, dispatches, and shipping records.
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About the Author:
Historian Dr Keith Vincent Smith is the author of King Bungaree (Kangaroo Press 1992) and Bennelong (Kangaroo Press 2001).
He was curator of the Mitchell Library exhibition Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys (2010) and co-curator (with Anthony Bourke) of Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney (2006). Keith was also principal researcher for Episode One of the SBS television series First Australians.
He was curator of the Mitchell Library exhibition Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys (2010) and co-curator (with Anthony Bourke) of Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney (2006). Keith was also principal researcher for Episode One of the SBS television series First Australians.
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- PublisherRosenberg Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1921719001
- ISBN 13 9781921719004
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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Rosenberg, Sydney
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ISBN 10: 1921719001
ISBN 13: 9781921719004
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 216pp, index, endnotes, bibliography, glossary, bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Near new. The significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia's early maritime history. The focus is the indigenous people who sailed on English ships through Port Jackson to destinations throughout the world between 1788-1850. Size: Small 4to. Seller Inventory # 052854
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