The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change by Iain McCalman Read Free Book Online Page A

Narcisse Pelletier—enriched by the anthropological expertise of Athol Chase—was how I came to know about Anco, the most fascinating Reef castaway of all. I thank Stephanie for her generosity in sharing her knowledge and insight with me.
    Likewise I could not have written about early Australian marine and maritime history without the writings of Alan Frost and John Gascoigne; about James Cook and Joseph Banks without the great texts of J. C. Beaglehole; about Eliza Fraser without Kay Schaffer and Jim Davidson; about Barbara Thompson without Ray Warren’s research and D. R. Moore’s marvelous transcripts and anthropological analyses; about William Saville-Kent without the research of A. J. Harrison, Kate Summerscale, and Noreen Kyle; and about Alex Agassiz and Alfred Mayor without the prior works of D. Dobbs, L. D. Stephens, and D. R. Calder. Phoebe Ford located, copied, and provided me with valuable documents from the Busst papers; and Emma Dortins allowed me to quote from her recent PhD thesis, which contains important original information on the castaway James Morrill.
    My grasp of the science and ecology of coral reefs and corals—such as it is—would have been far worse without Charlie Veron’s brilliant A Reef in Time , and the sparkling wit and erudition of the University College London geneticist and science writer Steve Jones. And nobody can write about northern Australian Aboriginal history without immersing themselves in the writings of Henry Reynolds, or hope to understand the early history and culture of the Torres Strait without the work of Jeremy Beckett. My thanks to you all.

 
    INDEX
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    “GBR” refers to the Great Barrier Reef.
    Aberdeen
    Aborigines: agriculture by; alleged cannibalism of; art by; Banfield and; contemporary; conversion of; Cook and; displacement of; Europeans adopted by; Europeans aided by; Europeans captured by; Europeans in conflict with; Europeans’ friendships with; Europeans’ impressions of; Europeans passing as; Europeans’ reconciliation with; Flinders and; food and; Fraser and; GBR and; genocide of; history and; Jukes and; as laborers for Europeans; rights to land and sea of; shelters of; slander of; stewardship of nature by; Torres Strait Islanders and; trade and; water collection by; Wright on; see also indigenous peoples; Torres Strait Islanders; specific clans
    Abridge
    Abrolhos Reefs
    Aburda
    ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation)
    acidification
    Acropora
    Actiniaria
    Adams, James
    Adolphus Island
    adoption, of Europeans by indigenous people
    “Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, The”
    Advocate
    Agassiz, Alex; background of; character of; Darwin and; father of; in GBR; legacy of; Mayor and; successor of; theory of; wealth of; wife of
    Agassiz, Cecile
    Agassiz, Louis
    Age of the Anthropocene
    agriculture
    AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science)
    Albany Passage
    alcohol
    Alcyonaria
    Alfred Hospital
    algae; symbiosis with coral
    Allan, Joyce
    Allen, John
    Allen, W. H.
    America
    Amglo, see Pelletier, Narcisse
    Ampol
    Anco, see Pelletier, Narcisse
    Anderson, Stephanie
    Andrews, Ernest
    anemones
    Anglican mission
    Animals and Bird Act of 1921
    animals: eating of, see fishing; hunting; diversity of, see biodiversity; see also specific animals
    anthropology, race and; see also Aborigines; indigenous peoples; Torres Strait Islanders
    aquariums
    Ararat
    Argyll, Duke of
    Arnold, Matthew
    arrow worms
    art; science and; see also artists aboard ships; photography
    artificial cultivation: of oysters; of pearls
    artists aboard ships
    artists’ colonies
    astraea
    Atarrka
    Attenborough, David
    Aureed Island
    Australia; centennials of; circumnavigation of; England’s claiming of; fabrications about; GBR’s