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PLOMLEY, N.J.B. (ed)
Jorgen Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land. Being a reconstruction of his 'lost' book on their customs and habits, and on his role in the Roving Parties and the Black Line.
Blubber Head Press Hobart 1991 1000 copies. 164pp, coloured frontis, 10 illustrations, folding coloured map at rear. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Mint (new copy). ISBN 0908528221 ***The imminent publication of a work entitled 'A Narrative of of the Habits, Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land', by Jorgen Jorgenson - the Danish adventurer/writer/convict, reputed sometime 'King' of Iceland etc etc - was announced in the Hobart Town press in 1837. The book never appeared, and this is the first publication of his incomplete manuscipt which the editor discovered in the Mitchell Library.
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