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Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 The Mermaid Attack
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A young Australian girl dives into the sea and joins the Waterworld. With her friends in the Mermaid Commune she fights to rescue the creatures of the deep from the inhumanity of humans.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Outback Press , 1978 .
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      Extent: 169p.
      ISBN: 0868880809

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Recognising Home in David Martin's Additive Exile : The Necessary Other That Puts Us into Relation J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Foreign Theoretical Trends , no. 7 2007; (p. 79-83)

— Appears in: Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe 2008; (p. 157-174) Fact and Fiction : Readings in Australian Literature 2008; (p. 9-26)
David Martin : Alienation and Belonging Walter McVitty , 1981 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 163-190)
Untitled Eve Pownall , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 74 1980; (p. 43)

— Review of The Mermaid Attack David Martin , 1978 single work children's fiction
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