THE author describes this book as the result of eighteen months' investigation made in Australia, when secretary of the British Cotton Delegation, 1922. He sets out to prove that great areas of ...

Starting from the 1860s, tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders were taken to Australia to work on plantations in Queensland — often by force or trickery, in a practice known as blackbirding.

The late Bernard Cotton must have realised the significance of what he recorded ... This effort isn’t only about preserving one species but also about protecting Australia’s wider natural and cultural ...