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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 North of the Ten Commandments : Preface
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Notes

  • Includes extracts from:

    • Mark Twain, Following the Equator 1897
    • Big Bill Neidjie, Kakadu Man, 1985
    • Fred Blakeley, Hard Liberty, 1938
    • Narritjan Maymuru, in J. Isaacs (ed.), Australian Dreaming, 1981

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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. xiii-xv
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