Entangled Tropical Knowledges: Towards a Poetics of Knowledge and Place-Making in Nineteenth Century Voyaging Narratives

Footsteps mark the land as people walk through the north eastern Queensland tropics. Here, in the mid-1800s, botanical explorers from the survey ship HMS Rattlesnake scour their newly encountered environment for species that will be sent as specimens to the growing collections in London. Local Abori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2016-08-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3301