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James Bonwick (1817-1906) arrived in Tasmania, then Van Diemen's
Land, in 1841, beginning an unstable and itinerant career as
school-master, writer, and archivist. A zealous non-conformist and
mystic, who was briefly in contact with Madame Blavatsky, Bonwick
became interested in the plight of the Tasmanian aborigines after a
visit to Flinders Island, to which the last of the nearly extinct
population had been removed. Published in 1870, by which time
Bonwick had become a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, this
book is a sympathetic anthropological study of indigenous Tasmanian
culture and society, based on colonial records, interviews with
early settlers and Bonwick's own experiences. The companion volume
to The Last of the Tasmanians, which discussed the reasons for the
extinction and was cited by Darwin in The Descent of Man, it
provides important source material, as well as insight into the
morally difficult subject of nineteenth-century anthropology.
In this 1902 work, teacher, historian and archivist James Bonwick
(1817-1906) recalls a long life's contribution to the fields of
education and historical writing. More than sixty publications can
be attributed to Bonwick, who was elected a fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society in 1865. He traces his life from boyhood to
the many years he spent in Australia, establishing, managing and
inspecting schools. Bonwick stressed the need for observation and
experimentation by the pupil rather than rote learning. He was also
involved in the temperance movement, and was a sympathetic champion
of the near-extinct Tasmanian aborigines. Upon returning to England
in the early 1880s, Bonwick immersed himself in transcribing
Australian source material, archived in London, that chronicled the
British settlement in Australia. Many of his transcripts were
subsequently used as the basis of works on the early history of
Australia both by Bonwick himself and by others.
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