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'Luminous images, accompanied by newspaper extracts dating back to the early 1800s and words by Ngiyampaa Elder Peter Williams explore the ongoing mystery of yahoo encounters.
'Throughout the first century or so of Australian settlement by Europeans, the pages of colonial newspapers were haunted by reports of a bewildering phenomenon: the mysterious yahoo or hairy man...
'But what was it?
'Yahoo Creek breathes life into this little-known piece of Australian history - which, by many accounts, is a history still in the making.' (Publication summary)
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Awards
- 2021 longlisted Book Links Award for Historical Fiction
- 2020 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
- 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Eve Pownall Award
- 2020 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book designed by Joanna Hunt.
- 2019 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Best Illustrated Book / Graphic Novel
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