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No footprints in the bush
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Arthur William Upfield |
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the outback to investigate the murder of two aborigines and is witness to the murder of a senior police officer, whose car is bombed by a mysterious airplane. |
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Boomerang Hunter
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Jim Kjelgaard |
An Aboriginal youth and his wild dog seek food for their hungry tribe whose lands are ridden with drought. |
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Pheasant and kingfisher
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Catherine Helen Berndt |
Two men escape from danger by turning into birds in this aboriginal myth from Australia which explains how the pheasant and kingfisher came into our world. |
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Texas
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Sarah Hay |
The compelling new novel of life, land and love in the Top End by Sarah Hay, winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her first novel, Skins in 2001.When did it all start? This feeling of be… |
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The Bone Readers
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Claudio Tuniz |
Eminent scientists set the record straight for readers puzzled by the myriad of claims and counterclaims about Australia's prehistory, arguing that many popular theories are based on misinterpretatio… |
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Australia
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Anne Wallace Sharp |
Discusses the historical origins, beliefs, arts, family life, cultural clashes with whites, and future hopes of the aboriginal people of Australia. |
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Folk tales & fables of Asia & Australia
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Barbara Hayes,Robert R. Ingpen |
Presents seventeen stories from the peoples of Asia as well as from the Australian aborigines and the Maori, including "Baba Yaga and the Stepdaughter," "The Bridge of Magpies," "Rainbow Serpent," an… |
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The biggest estate on earth
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Bill Gammage |
"Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country es… |
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Dreamtime superhighway
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Jo McDonald |
"Dreamtime superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates … |
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Forgetting Aborigines
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Chris Healy |
"How is it that Aboriginality seems to appear and disappear in public culture? One of the key ways in which this happens is through some strange and repetitive patterns of forgetting and remembering:… |
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Seeing the first Australians
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Tamsin Donaldson,Ian Donaldson |
First sight / Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson -- The first European depictions / Bernard Smith -- Reactions on Cook's voyage / Glyndwr Williams -- Savage sportsmen / James Urry -- The Darwinian pers… |
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Reef of death
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Paul Zindel |
While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef, seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an evil scientist and a deadly underwater … |
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Distant serenade
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Michael McLean |
An aborigine tale of outback Australia, accompanied by piano vocal score for the songs that the story inspired. |
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Strangers on the shore
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Margo Neale,Peter Sutton,Peter Marius Veth |
"Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diver… |
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The Lure of the Bush
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Arthur William Upfield |
From the front flap of the cover:
Napoleon Bonaparte arrived quietly at Barrakee Stations, one of the best known homesteads in Australia's rich Darling River basin. Ostensibly he was a hired han… |
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Murder must wait
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Arthur William Upfield |
A tale about kidnapping and murder in keeping with the mystique of Bony. In the town of Mitford, NSW, five babies have disappeared and a woman, the mother of one of the babies, has been murdered. |
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Encountering Aboriginal languages
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William McGregor |
This edited volume represents the first book-length study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning… |
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Too Much Lip
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Melissa Lucashenko |
Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalan… |
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The Barrakee Mystery
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Arthur William Upfield |
> AN INSPECTOR NAPOLEON "BONY" BONAPARTE MYSTERY
>**Featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal Australian detective**
>Why was King Henry, an aboriginal from western Australia, killed in New South Wa… |
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Everything you need to know about the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians
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Megan Davis |
This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution. It details how our Constitution was drafted, and shows how Aborigin… |
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