Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert

Author(s): Sue Davenport

History

This is the story of first contact between a young aboriginal woman, Yuwali, and European Australia. It happened in 1964, but its genesis began in 1947, when the Commonwealth Government announced a rocket testing range was to be located at Woomera. Highly illuustrated with iamages from the sixties.


Product Information

Part I: The beginning; Part II: The first patrol; Part III: Between patrols; Part IV: The second patrol; Part V: The confines of civilisation; Epilogue; Index.

General Fields

  • : 9780855754570
  • : Aboriginal Studies Press
  • : 0.604
  • : October 2005
  • : 230mm X 185mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sue Davenport
  • : Paperback
  • : 305.89915
  • : 208
  • : b/w photos