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Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones
by TINDALE, Norman B
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- Hardcover
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. Hardcover. Fine. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974 [first US edition]/ 1974. Quarto, two parts, xii, 404 pages with 39 charts and illustrations, plus 92 [read 102] black and white and 46 colour plates, together with 4 large folding tribal boundaries maps in a separate plain slipcase. An errata slip is mounted on the verso of the title page (noting that all but one of the colour plates is 'printed in reverse as mirror images'). Synthetic cloth; top edge of the text block very slightly marked; a fine set in the excellent slipcase (a little rubbed at the extremities and slightly creased on the front panel). The 'bibliography and the information on a wide range of ecological, geographic and linguistic facts are particularly valuable and worthwhile ... an essential reference work' (Hill and Barlow). It was first published earlier the same year by the Australian National University Press in Canberra. [2 items].
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138111
- Title
- Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones
- Author
- TINDALE, Norman B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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