Glen McLaren
Biographic Data
| ID | 5233774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glen McLaren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glen |
| FAMILY NAME | McLaren |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAREN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Bushmanship
Bushmanship, or the competence to interact meaningfully with newly encountered environments in the achievement of predetermined goals, is a factor overlooked in analyses of land-based exploration. The importance of bushmanship is examined in this paper through a comparison of George Grey's inept exploration of north-western Australia in 1836-37 with Edward Eyre's increasingly successful overlanding ventures in south-eastern Australia at approxima…
The changing dietary habits of nineteenth‐century Australian explorers
In the first decade of white settlement in New South Wales, ground exploration was limited by the critical shortage of horses and the inability to live off the land. Bush skills were lacking and muskets were extremely inaccurate. Subsequently, the introduction of kangaroo dogs, the willingness to consume even the least appetising animals, and the identification of edible native plants made explorers less dependent on what they could carry. Such s…
The saddle ‐ horse
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The saddle ‐ horse
The changing dietary habits of nineteenth‐century Australian explorers
In the first decade of white settlement in New South Wales, ground exploration was limited by the critical shortage of horses and the inability to live off the land. Bush skills were lacking and muskets were extremely inaccurate. Subsequently, the introduction of kangaroo dogs, the willingness to consume even the least appetising animals, and the identification of edible native plants made explorers less dependent on what they could carry. Such s…
Bushmanship
Bushmanship, or the competence to interact meaningfully with newly encountered environments in the achievement of predetermined goals, is a factor overlooked in analyses of land-based exploration. The importance of bushmanship is examined in this paper through a comparison of George Grey's inept exploration of north-western Australia in 1836-37 with Edward Eyre's increasingly successful overlanding ventures in south-eastern Australia at approxima…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
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