A4 size softcover book. Spencer was appointed as the biologist & photographer to the Horn expedition. The first scientific expedition to Central Australia. Spencer and Frank Gillen took 500 glass plate photos, 3000 feet of moving film, and recordings of Aboriginal songs on wax cylinders, and created the most significant record of Aboriginal life in Australia.

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Punu is a Yankunytjatjara word which means not only plants of all kinds, but also the things that can be made or derived from them: punu includes everything from trees, vines, grasses and fungi to food, medicine, tools, weapons and ornaments.

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Sand and Stone – Pigeon    by Kevin Moran (With a Foreword by Peter Conole)

Stephen Kinnane. 

The story of Jesse Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid strictures of London. In a society deeply divided on racial lines, Edward and Jessie, met, fell in love and against strong opposition eventually married. Despite unrelenting surveillance and harassment the Smith home was a centre for Aboriginal cultural and social life for over thirty years.

At twenty John Bradley was sent to teach Aboriginal children in a school at remote Borroloola, on the Gulf of Carpentaria in far north Australia.
But it is the teacher who is educated by the Yanyuwa elders and their families. Over three decades he learns their language and their country, becoming intimately drawn into other ways of being, both practical and spiritual. With passion and pride they teach him their songlines, relating what they know and value - ancestors, kin, allegiances; places, plants, animals; seasons, ceremonies, stories - and the spirit that sustains all.
As we follow John Bradley on his journey, we begin to see that the songlines are keys to the authority and continuity held by Aboriginal Law. We begin to understand why, when country can no longer be sung, the Yanyuwa feel it so deeply. And what such loss means to us all.
'A rare diary of devotion... sometimes humorous, sometimes very sad, revealing the extraordinary personal commitment needed to gain insight into Aboriginal connections to country... a moving tale of an urgent quest.'

Someone Else's Country

Wurrung (crow)! You my Wurrung-boy!'

On a remote cattle station a small boy begins a profound journey into an Australia few whitefellas know.  The Country inside our Country.  And outside and all around at the same time.  Aboriginal Australia.

With Someone Else's Country Peter Docker tells a remarkable, gripping story - devastatingly real, painful and deeply moving, yet also joyful, intensely compassionate and absolutely hilarious.  And ultimately, this is a journey into another place - a genuine meeting ground for Black and White Australia, a place built on deep personal engagement and understanding.

Someone Else's Country is a journey we feel privileged to share.