Title Octopus crowd : maritime history and the business of Australian pearling in its schooner age / Steve Mullins.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Maritime currents : history and archaeology
Summary	"A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Losing Alice -- Origins of pearling on the East Coast -- The lure of the North -- From Torres Strait to the North West : 1881-1886 -- In the North West : 1886-1890 -- The Aru Islands : there and back -- Consolidating the combination : 1891-1897 -- Days of plenty, days of pain : 1897-1899 -- Federation : the specter of white Australia -- In the Netherlands Indies -- Between a rock and a hard place : 1908-1917 -- Conclusion: The passing of the schooner age.
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Subject	Pearl fisheries -- Australia -- History.
	Pearl fisheries.
	Australia.
	History.
	Mother-of-pearl -- Australia -- History.
	Mother-of-pearl.
	Pearl divers -- Australia -- History.
	Pearl divers.
	Schooners -- Australia -- History.
	Schooners.
	Australia -- Commerce -- History.
	Commerce.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Mullins, Steve, 1952- Octopus crowd. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2019] 9780817320249 (DLC) 2018059616 (OCoLC)1079002123
ISBN	9780817392383 (electronic book)
	0817392386 (electronic book)
	9780817320249
	0817320245