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![A Very Secret Trade – The Dark Story of Gentlemen Anthropological Collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus | 2024 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-very-secret-trade-D96sut.png "A Very Secret Trade – The Dark Story of Gentlemen Anthropological Collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus | 2024 [NEW – SC]")
In the 19th century, European collectors and museum curators cultivated contacts in Van Diemen's Land who could supply them with specimens — not just thylacines and platypuses, but human remains. The belief that Tasmania's original Aboriginal people were a unique race facing extinction drove the European scientific community to scramble for human exhibits, creating a clandestine trade in human bones that reached to the highest levels of colonial society.
![Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/buckleys-chance-zfeIdn.png "Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]")
In 1803, William Buckley escaped from a British convict settlement at Port Phillip Bay and disappeared into the Australian bush. He was found 32 years later — barefoot, dressed in animal skins, carrying a spear, and having largely forgotten the English language. In between, he had lived with the Wathaurong people of what is now Victoria.
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