Ochre And Rust Artefacts And Encounters On Australian Frontiers

Author: Philip Jones

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Price : $49.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781862545854
Publisher : Wakefield Press
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Weight (g) : 1.04
Publication date : 01 November 2007
Dimensions : 230mm X 168mm
Produced in : Australia
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Author : Philip Jones
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Dewey classification : 994.02
Reading Level : near fine
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Pages : 448
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Description

Takes Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and traces their stories, revealing charge and nuanced moments of encounter in Australia's frontier history. Special Price A$24.00 valid 01/09/08-13/10/08 ALIA Conference 08

Awards

Winner of Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia): Non-Fiction 2008 and FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award 2008. Shortlisted for Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Best History Book 2007.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.