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Cover images: (Foreground illustration) Sailor marooned on uninhabited island by Chris Hellier / Alamy Stock Photo; (Background illustration) Bonwick, James, 1817–1906. The Wild White Man & the Blacks of Victoria. 2d ed. Melbourne: Fergusson & Moore, 1863. Samuel Calvert 1828–1913, engraver.
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