The Axe Had Never Sounded: Place, People and Heritage in Recherche Bay, Tasmania.

Mulvaney, John:

ISBN 10: 192131320X / ISBN 13: 9781921313202

Published by Australian National University, 2007

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xxi 141p large format paperback, illustrated cover, many plates, also in colour very good, with author inscription Language: English.

Seller Inventory # 232991

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Axe Had Never Sounded: Place, People and Heritage in Recherche Bay, Tasmania.
• Publisher: Australian National University
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 192131320X
• ISBN 13: 9781921313202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australia

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Synopsis

‘This book meets well the triple promise of the title - the inter-connections of place, people and heritage. John Mulvaney brings to this work a deep knowledge of the history, ethnography and archaeology of Tasmania. He presents a comprehensive account of the area’s history over the 200 years since French naval expeditions first charted its coastlines. The important records the French officers and scientists left of encounters with Aboriginal groups are discussed in detail, set in the wider ethnographic context and compared with those of later expeditions. The topical issues of understanding the importance of Recherche Bay as a cultural landscape and its protection and future management inform the book. Readers will be challenged to consider the connections between people and place, and how these may constitute significant national heritage.’