Roving mariners : Australian aboriginal whalers and sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790-1870.

"For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt?dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers."--Back cover.