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Botany Bay I single work   poetry   "Cook rubs the bone fishing hook he found in sand"
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Botany Bay I
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Sunday 6th. In the evening the yawl return’d from fishing having caught two Sting rays weighing near 600 pounds. The great quantity of New Plants … Mr Banks & Dr Solander collected in this place occasioned my giveing it the name of Sting-Ray Harbour Botanyists Bay. – James Cook’s Journal, Daily Entries, 6 May 1770.

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    y separately published work icon An Absence of Saints Rosanna Licari , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2010 Z1713221 2010 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2010 pg. 27
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