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Australian dreaming : 40,000 years of Aboriginal history

by Jennifer Isaacs

This history of the Australian continent and its people is told by Aboriginal storytellers. It recounts the travels of the Great Spirit Ancestors, explaining how they created the plants, animals and earliest people of the land.

Accession 36593 ISBN 070181330X Publisher Lansdowne Press
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