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No footprints in the bush No footprints in the bush 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. OL10537533W
Boomerang Hunter Boomerang Hunter Jim Kjelgaard An Aboriginal youth and his wild dog seek food for their hungry tribe whose lands are ridden with drought. OL1256781W
Pheasant and kingfisher Pheasant and kingfisher 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. OL1292902W
Texas Texas 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… OL15186184W
The Bone Readers The Bone Readers 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… OL15189448W
Australia Australia Anne Wallace Sharp Discusses the historical origins, beliefs, arts, family life, cultural clashes with whites, and future hopes of the aboriginal people of Australia. OL16052328W
The biggest estate on earth The biggest estate on earth 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… OL16302653W
Dreamtime superhighway Dreamtime superhighway 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 … OL16917975W
Forgetting Aborigines Forgetting Aborigines 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:… OL17562865W
Reef of death Reef of death 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 … OL1815148W
Distant serenade Distant serenade Michael McLean An aborigine tale of outback Australia, accompanied by piano vocal score for the songs that the story inspired. OL1830955W
Strangers on the shore Strangers on the shore 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… OL18544049W
Mutant message down under Mutant message down under Marlo Morgan Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's… OL1884181W
The Lure of the Bush The Lure of the Bush 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… OL1890128W
Murder must wait Murder must wait 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. OL1890178W
Encountering Aboriginal languages Encountering Aboriginal languages 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… OL18960752W
Too Much Lip Too Much Lip 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… OL20821875W
Everything you need to know about the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians Everything you need to know about the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians 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… OL23435938W
Edge of empire Edge of empire Jane Jacobs Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in four contemporary first world cities: two sites in London and two sites in the Australian cities of Perth and Brisbane. Through these examples th… OL3231284W
Innamincka talk Innamincka talk Gavan Breen Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on t… OL3821892W
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