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y separately published work icon Through Spinifex and Sand to the Last Desert Family : A Journey through the Gibson and Little Sandy Deserts of Western Australia single work   biography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Through Spinifex and Sand to the Last Desert Family : A Journey through the Gibson and Little Sandy Deserts of Western Australia
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'Bill Peasley and his associates travelled to the Great Sandy Desert in 1976. They brought into civilisation the last of the ‘wild’ aboriginals who had, because of tribal laws, chosen to live a free life in the desert. This is the story of the expedition, the family, and earlier travels in that area.'

'A Foreword by Mark Chambers and Peter Bridge correlates the confusing nomenclature of the family used over the decades by the various expeditions that had encountered them. The family were to become the ‘Browns’ and Georgina (Dadina) Brown’s story has been told as Born in the Desert.'

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    • Carlisle, Victoria Park area, South & South East Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Hesperian Press , 2015 .
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      Extent: 100p.
      Description: illus. (some col.), maps, and ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 9780859055901
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y separately published work icon Born in the Desert : The Land and Travels of a Last Australian Nomad Land and Travels of a Last Australian Nomad Marion Hercock , Georgina Dadina Brown , Victoria Park : Hesperian Press , 2009 Z1745713 2009 single work biography

'Martu woman Dadina Brown was born and reared in Western Australia's Little Sandy Desert during the 1970s. Like her famous kinsfolk, Warri and Yatunkga ('The Last of the Nomads'), her family met Stan Gratte's party of field historians, and came to live in Wiluna. Combines the memories of a last Aboriginal nomad with a history and geography of the Little Sandy Desert. Personal stories merge with images of desert landscapes in a colourful, descriptive and candid account of outback life. Dadina Georgina Brown was born in that desert, but outside the bounds of her Mandildjara aboriginal tribe. Ms Brown is one of the last people to have lived the traditional nomad life. Features stories about her early childhood as Dadina, living wild and free; and then adjusting to life as Georgina, resident in the outback community at Wiluna.' (Source: Google books website)
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Last amended 28 Jul 2016 10:18:14
Subjects:
  • Great Sandy Desert, Central desert areas, Western Australia,
  • 1976
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