1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003721679707536

Autore

Butson, Thomas

Titolo

Mihail Gorbaciov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Targa italiana, 1989

Descrizione fisica

134 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

I learders

Disciplina

947.0854092

Soggetti

Gorbacev, Mihail Sergeevic

Unione Sovietica - Politica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822203803321

Autore

Gelder Ken <1955->

Titolo

The colonial kangaroo hunt / / Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlton, Victoria : , : The Miegunyah Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-522-87586-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages)

Disciplina

599.2

Soggetti

Kangaroos

Kangaroo hunting

Australia Social life and customs

Australia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Sommario/riassunto

From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people. The kangaroo hunt worked as a rite of passage and an expression of settler domination over native species and land. But it also enabled settlers to begin to comprehend the complexity of bush ecology, raising early concerns about species extinction and the need for conservation and the preservation of habitat.--