James Erskine Calder (–1882)
Auteur de The native tribes of Tasmania
Œuvres de James Erskine Calder
Brady : McCabe, Dunne, Bryan, Crawford, Murphy, Bird, McKenney, Goodwin, Pawley, Bryant, Cody, Hodgett's, Gregory,… (1979) 5 exemplaires
Rambles on Betsy's Island, Tasman's Peninsula, and Forestier's Peninsula in February 1848 4 exemplaires
Some account of the wars, extirpation, habits, &c., of the native tribes of Tasmania (2010) 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1808-06-08 (1802 some references)
- Date de décès
- 1882-02-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England (birth)
Australia - Lieu de naissance
- Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England
- Lieu du décès
- Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Tasmania, Australia
- Professions
- Surveyor
Surveyor General
Sergeant at Arms (Tasmanian Parliament)
author
commissioner (Fingal Goldfields) - Relations
- Margaret, Elizabeth (Wife)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 22
- Popularité
- #553,378
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Publishing.htm
Written by James Calder in 1876 for the Tasmanian Tribune, it was based from his diary from 1848 where he had been to several places in Southern Tasmania to re-install survey trigonomic stations that had been destroyed in bushfires.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/calder-james-erskine-1865
A little bland in some of his descriptions about the land, as most Europeans seemed to dislike the Australian bush, it is made better by some humorous interactions around the convict prison of Port Arthur with police and guards patrolling for absconders. As Calder points out most police and guards were ex-convicts so were rascals and he couldn’t treat them ‘jaw to jaw’ like in the settled district as it was a very isolated area.
Calder also had an interest in botany and biology, he described a couple of the species he found on his rambles like Richea pandanifolia and Janthina fragilis which both get a mention in the local Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science.… (plus d'informations)