The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

Download or Read eBook The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt PDF written by Ken Gelder and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
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Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780522875867
ISBN-13 : 0522875866
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Book Synopsis The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by : Ken Gelder

Book excerpt: 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.


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