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F. J. Gillen's First Diary 1875
Diary of a journey along the Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Alice Springs when Gillen was nineteen years old; Phillip Jones notes in the Foreword that Gillen's first diary shows that he brought with him preconceived ideas about Aboriginal people - ideas which were later to change.
Francis James Gillen
Journals, notebooks and vocabularies compiled by F.J. Gillen, anthropologist and explorer. With an address presented to him by fellow officers of the Overland Telegraph.
The Native Tribes of Central Australia
The Native Tribes of Central Australia is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
"My Dear Spencer"
The extraordinary collection of letters has remained unpublished for nearly a century. It sheds vivid light on race relations, social conditions and Aboriginal culture in Central Australia, It also documents a crucial and poorly understood period in the history of anthropology. The book makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of central Australian Aboriginal society, and to current debates concerning land rights.
Gillen's Diary
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Across Australia
Fieldwork on the Aborigines of Central Australia by Spencer and Gillen was published in two volumes in 1912.
The Arunta
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Francis James Child
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F.J. Gillen's First Diary 1875
This is the first of two diaries by anthropologist and photographer Francis Gillen. Written in 1875, it records his experiences as a young man travelling along the Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to work in Alice Springs - a journey which would form the basis of his later work. The diary, introduced and with notes by Francis Gillen's grandson, Robert Gillen, includes a foreword by historian Philip Jones.
