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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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Land of the Rainbow Snake
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Catherine Helen Berndt |
Boys turn into fish, a wild woman and her giant dog look for people to eat, and other wonders occur in these twenty-seven traditional stories from the aborigines of western Arnhem Land, in the Northe… |
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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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Australian legendary tales
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K. Langloh Parker |
A neighbour of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folk-lore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station, "But have the blacks a… |
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Walkabout
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Gillian Porter Ladousse,James Vance Marshall,Jim Alderson |
Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian desert. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them … |
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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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Gunshot Road
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Adrian Hyland |
The new pacy read from the author of Diamond Dove, in which the fantastic Emily Tempest becomes a cop and has to investigate the death of an old friend. |
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An aboriginal family
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Rollo Browne |
An eleven-year-old Aboriginal girl describes her life with her family on a former cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. |
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Uluru, Australia's Aboriginal heart
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Caroline Arnold |
Describes Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, in Australia's Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, its plant and animal life, and the country's Aboriginal people for whom the site is sacred. |
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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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Story From The Billabong
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James Vance Marshall |
Ten ancient legends of the Yorta-Yorta people -- one of Australia's Aboriginal tribes, are retold here. You will discover how Great Mother Snake created and peopled the world with plants and creature… |
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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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Transgressions
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Mark Hannah,Ingereth Macfarlane |
"This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral st… |
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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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Sarah Thornhill
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Kate Grenville |
Sarah is the youngest child of William Thornhill, an uneducated ex-convict from London who has built his fortune on the blood of Aboriginal people. With a fine stone house and plenty of money, Thornh… |
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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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