Invisible Country
Southwest Australia: Understanding a Landscape
$28.11
- Paperback
270 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2015
Summary
When Europeans first settled in Australia, the land withheld many of its secrets from these new arrivals. There were broad rivers, wide plains and tall forests, all of which, to European eyes, suggested promising sites for settlement. To many of the new settlers, the First Australians were a puzzle. They moved freely through country they knew intimately. They had useful things to say to the European newcomers if they would listen. What few realised then was that Aboriginal people and the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742586250 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742586252 |
| Author: | Bill Bunbury |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 270 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2015 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Bill Bunbury
Bill Bunbury is a broadcaster, documentary maker and Adjunct Professor of Communications and History at Murdoch University. After joining the ABC in 1969, Bunbury pioneered the use of oral hstory in creating radio features about Australian life and society. His radio documentaries have received a number of awards including the United Nations Australia Peace Prize. Bunbury is a regular speaker at history assocations on the topics of the oral, environmental and social history of Western Australia.
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