Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
- White men met the drug early, in the course of one of their first and most disastrous penetrations into the desert bush, the Burke and Wills expedition. A wild tobacco specimen was collected midway through the journey, sent back to Melbourne and catalogued there by the encyclopedic-minded Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the government botanist of Victoria
- White men met the drug early, in the course of one of their first and most disastrous penetrations into the desert bush, the Burke and Wills expedition. A wild tobacco specimen was collected midway through the journey, sent back to Melbourne and catalogued there by the encyclopedic-minded Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the government botanist of Victoria