Gabo Djara: a Novel of Australia

Nuclear Cycle

by B. Wongar

The final part of a trilogy, drawing on a tradition of tribal poetry and belief. The author uses the green ant, Gabo Djaro, as the basis for his allegory about the ravishment of aborigine land spoiled by the white man's uranium mining and tests for nuclear weapons. B. Wongar is the author of "The Track to Bralgu", "Walg" and "Karan".

256 pages, Paperback

Published March 17, 1991

About the author

B.Wongar (born in 1932 as Sreten Božić) is an Australian author who writes chiefly on the fate of tribal people in Australia, the wildlife and the environment.

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