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Inventing a colonial dark tourism site: The Derby boab 'prison tree'

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posted on 2023-05-22, 16:08 authored by Kristyn HarmanKristyn Harman, Grant, E
A large hollow boab known as the "prison tree" just outside the small town of Derby in Western Australia is a major tourist attraction, visited by thousands of people annually. It is represented as a historic site, where Aboriginal people were incarcerated for opposing "heroic" European pastoralists attempting to found a modern Australia. To understand the "prison tree," it is vital to comprehend the impact on the Aboriginal traditional owners of the expansion of pastoralism to the Kimberley region in the 1880s and 1890s.

History

Publication title

Handbook of Prison Tourism

Editors

J Wilson and S Hodgkinson

Pagination

135-759

ISBN

978-1-137-56134-3

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Place of publication

United Kingdom

Extent

10

Rights statement

Copyright 2017 The Editors and The Authors

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  • Restricted

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