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• catalog abstract ""In the nineteenth century the centre of the continent was, to white Australians, a vast forbidding emptiness. The completion of the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1870s brought with it a new knowledge of the area, as well as a number of intruders to a landscape familiar to Aboriginal people for thirty thousand years. Among the newcomers were a policeman, Ernest Cowle, and a telegraph official, Paddy Byrne, living in frontier settlements hundreds of kilometres from the nearest Europeans.". "From 1894 to 1925, Cowle and Byrne wrote letters to pioneering anthropologist and biologist Baldwin Spencer, whom they had met during the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to central Australia. Neither expected their letters to be read by any person other than Spencer, and both made observations which they would never voice to each other. Yet through their letters, and the Spencer and Gillen books, they became linked to such giants of intellectual history as James Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. And both became figures on the frontier of discovery, looking at human experience in all its diversity.". "The subjects of their letters were the Aboriginal people, the landscape in which they lived and the unusual flora and fauna of their habitat. These earthy and thoughtful men offered an extended report from the frontier of the relations between white and black Australians, a place then characterised by mutual incomprehension, outbreaks of violence and the vast distance between two seemingly incompatible ways of responding to an extreme environment."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b11867676.
• catalog contributor b11867677.
• catalog contributor b11867678.
• catalog contributor b11867679.
• catalog contributor b11867680.
• catalog contributor b11867681.
• catalog contributor b11867682.
• catalog coverage "Australia Description and travel.".
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""From 1894 to 1925, Cowle and Byrne wrote letters to pioneering anthropologist and biologist Baldwin Spencer, whom they had met during the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to central Australia. Neither expected their letters to be read by any person other than Spencer, and both made observations which they would never voice to each other. Yet through their letters, and the Spencer and Gillen books, they became linked to such giants of intellectual history as James Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. And both became figures on the frontier of discovery, looking at human experience in all its diversity.".".
• catalog description ""In the nineteenth century the centre of the continent was, to white Australians, a vast forbidding emptiness. The completion of the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1870s brought with it a new knowledge of the area, as well as a number of intruders to a landscape familiar to Aboriginal people for thirty thousand years. Among the newcomers were a policeman, Ernest Cowle, and a telegraph official, Paddy Byrne, living in frontier settlements hundreds of kilometres from the nearest Europeans.".".
• catalog description ""The subjects of their letters were the Aboriginal people, the landscape in which they lived and the unusual flora and fauna of their habitat. These earthy and thoughtful men offered an extended report from the frontier of the relations between white and black Australians, a place then characterised by mutual incomprehension, outbreaks of violence and the vast distance between two seemingly incompatible ways of responding to an extreme environment."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-331) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Correspondents on a Frontier -- Pt. I. The Cowle Correspondence: Letters from Mounted Constable C. E. Cowle to Baldwin Spencer, 1894-1920. 1. Cowle of Illamurta. 2. Home at Illamurta. 3. People and Environment. 4. After Gillen. 5. Bush Ethnography -- Pt. II. The Byrne Correspondence: Letters from P. M. Byrne to Baldwin Spencer, 1894-1925. 6. Pado Byrne of Charlotte Waters. 7. Correspondence 1894-95. 8. The Mail 1896-1925. App. 1. C. E. Cowle Letters to Edward Stirling -- App. 2. C. E. Cowle to R. H. Mathews -- App. 3. Official Police Correspondence -- App. 4. Cost of Escorting Prisoners -- App. 5. Byrne's Kurdaitcha Article (1895) -- App. 6. Surviving Letters from Baldwin Spencer to P. M. Byrne.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 338 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1865083178".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin,".
• catalog spatial "Australia Central Australia".
• catalog spatial "Australia Central Australia.".
• catalog spatial "Australia Description and travel.".
• catalog spatial "Australia".
• catalog subject "Aboriginal Australians Australia Central Australia Social life and customs.".
• catalog subject "Anthropologists Australia Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Biologists Australia Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Byrne, Patrick Michael, 1856-1932 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Cowle, Charles Ernest, 1863-1922 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "DU104 .B97 2000".
• catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Australia Central Australia.".
• catalog subject "Natural history Australia Central Australia.".
• catalog subject "Pioneers Australia Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Scientific expeditions Australia Central Australia.".
• catalog subject "Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929 Correspondence.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Correspondents on a Frontier -- Pt. I. The Cowle Correspondence: Letters from Mounted Constable C. E. Cowle to Baldwin Spencer, 1894-1920. 1. Cowle of Illamurta. 2. Home at Illamurta. 3. People and Environment. 4. After Gillen. 5. Bush Ethnography -- Pt. II. The Byrne Correspondence: Letters from P. M. Byrne to Baldwin Spencer, 1894-1925. 6. Pado Byrne of Charlotte Waters. 7. Correspondence 1894-95. 8. The Mail 1896-1925. App. 1. C. E. Cowle Letters to Edward Stirling -- App. 2. C. E. Cowle to R. H. Mathews -- App. 3. Official Police Correspondence -- App. 4. Cost of Escorting Prisoners -- App. 5. Byrne's Kurdaitcha Article (1895) -- App. 6. Surviving Letters from Baldwin Spencer to P. M. Byrne.".
• catalog title "From the frontier : outback letters to Baldwin Spencer / [compiled by] John Mulvaney ; with Alison Petch and Howard Morphy.".
• catalog type "text".