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5★+
“It was one walkabout time at Mount Saint Vidgeon in the Never-Never Land south of the Roper River that the Medicine Man, the Doctor Blackfellow, tried to kill me.
I lived to tell the tale. Allabout hear ’im:…”
That’s the beginning of chapter one. White journalist and author Douglas Lockwood, who wrote this story in the first person for Waipuldanya, introduced it with this:
“This book is dedicated with gratitude and affection to WAIPULDANYA of the Alawa tribe of Australian Aborigines whose story ...more
“It was one walkabout time at Mount Saint Vidgeon in the Never-Never Land south of the Roper River that the Medicine Man, the Doctor Blackfellow, tried to kill me.
I lived to tell the tale. Allabout hear ’im:…”
That’s the beginning of chapter one. White journalist and author Douglas Lockwood, who wrote this story in the first person for Waipuldanya, introduced it with this:
“This book is dedicated with gratitude and affection to WAIPULDANYA of the Alawa tribe of Australian Aborigines whose story ...more
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5★
I read this book sometime in the 1980s or 90s and gave my copy to a young Aboriginal friend who was fascinated when I told her about it. I must buy another one. As I remember it, the author was a white journalist and writer living in the Territory who tried to convince his close Aboriginal friend Philip Roberts to write his story, but Philip wanted Lockwood to write it for him in the first person, as if it were his ow ...more
5★
I read this book sometime in the 1980s or 90s and gave my copy to a young Aboriginal friend who was fascinated when I told her about it. I must buy another one. As I remember it, the author was a white journalist and writer living in the Territory who tried to convince his close Aboriginal friend Philip Roberts to write his story, but Philip wanted Lockwood to write it for him in the first person, as if it were his ow ...more
Apr 07, 2017
Katya
marked it as to-read
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