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Unwritten histories

Title
Unwritten histories / Craig Cormick.
Author
Cormick, Craig, 1961-
Publication
Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Description
xvi, 188 pages; 21 cm
Summary
In this witty and satirical revisiting of Australia's heroic past, Craig rediscovers the contributions of Indigenous Australians that have always remained unrecorded and unacknowledged. Drawing on original records of the time, he has turned the spotlight.
Subject
  • Tales > Australia
  • Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
  • Aboriginal Australians > History
  • Tales
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
  • Iwi taketake
  • Australia > History > Fiction
  • Australia
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • History
Note
  • "First published ... for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-188).
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Terra Nullius -- the Unknown Country -- Buckley's Chance -- Charles Darwin Views the Future -- The Last History of Jorgen Jorgensen -- Sorry Business -- The Unknown South Land -- Do You Remember When You Heard Kennedy Had Been Killed? -- The Three Gospels of the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld -- Dig: The Forgotten History of Burke and Wills -- The Event of the Century -- Ned Kelly Dreaming -- Mrs Watson Escapes the Cannibals -- Krao -- the Missing Link -- Jandamarrajandamarrajandamarra! -- The Last Battle -- Mrs Shackleton's Freezer -- Pastor Strehlow's Journey to the Land of Death -- Lasseter's Last Dream.
ISBN
  • 0855753161
  • 9780855753160
LCCN
99197948
OCLC
  • ocn222285152
  • 222285152
  • SCSB-862607
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library