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The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

The Miegunyah Press

The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

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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.

“As you’d expect from such accomplished scholar-writers, the book is impeccably researched, perspicaciously written, continuously informative, and horribly entertaining.” - Justin Clemens

Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver
Published March 2020
Paperback
277 Pages
232mm x 154mm 

ISBN: 9780522875850


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