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Alternative title: Tangara : 'Let Us Set Off Again'
Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 Tangara
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'Sometimes when Lexie fingered a string of shells she had been given as a little girl, she felt strange memories stir. It was as if something very precious was buried away in her own mind. Great-great Aunt Rita's old shell necklace carries a power that Lexie can't possibly know. Then, when it leads her to a new friend, she and Merrina enter the secret gully where Merrina's people live.But the gully holds a terrible secret, as old as the necklace itself. Will Lexie be strong enough, as she relives the nightmare her Aunt Rita endured?This deeply moving classic by one of our great children's writers is part fantasy, part history, and one hundred percent masterpiece.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (UQP reprint).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Oxford University Press ,
      1960 .
      image of person or book cover 2941256185014512804.jpg
      This image has been sourced from Goodreads.
      Extent: 180p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1970 , 1980
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Oxford University Press ,
      1972 .
      image of person or book cover 2748964390420145127.jpg
      This image has been sourced from Abe Books
      Extent: 121p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0192720287 (pbk.)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Oxford University Press ,
      1979 .
      image of person or book cover 9147715794400311469.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online
      Extent: 180p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0192770942
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1987 .
      image of person or book cover 3798675630446556363.jpg
      This image has been sourced from Goodreads.
      Extent: 180p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1991 With title change to Tangara. ISBN remains the same as 1987 publication.
      ISBN: 0140321853
Alternative title: O das junge Emu...
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Claudius ,
      1965 .
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      Extent: 158p.

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Works about this Work

Creating Our Own Stories : Cusack, Kiddle and Chauncey Gillian Polack , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 99 2017;
Books That Changed Me : Nan Chauncy Katherine Scholes , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 September 2013; (p. 14)
Old Gem Lights up the Past Christopher Bantick , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 May 2007; (p. 9)

— Review of Tangara Nan Chauncy , 1960 single work children's fiction
Tangara : 'Let Us Set Off Again' by Nan Chauncy Stella Lees , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 7-8)
Aboriginal Australia : A Century of Attitudinal Change John Foster , E. J. Finnis , Maureen Nimon , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Children's Literature : An Exploration of Genre and Theme 1995; (p. 35-52)
Old Gem Lights up the Past Christopher Bantick , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 May 2007; (p. 9)

— Review of Tangara Nan Chauncy , 1960 single work children's fiction
[Review] Tangara 1961 single work review
— Appears in: New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 12 1961; (p. 12)

— Review of Tangara Nan Chauncy , 1960 single work children's fiction
[Review] Tangara Leonie Tyle , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 31 no. 3 1987; (p. 58-59)

— Review of Tangara Nan Chauncy , 1960 single work children's fiction
Moving Forward, Looking Backward: Nan Chauncy's 'Tiger in the Bush' and 'Tangara' Stella Lees , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 1 no. 3 1990; (p. 124-131)
Aboriginal Australia : A Century of Attitudinal Change John Foster , E. J. Finnis , Maureen Nimon , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Children's Literature : An Exploration of Genre and Theme 1995; (p. 35-52)
Tangara : 'Let Us Set Off Again' by Nan Chauncy Stella Lees , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 7-8)
Books That Changed Me : Nan Chauncy Katherine Scholes , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 September 2013; (p. 14)
Creating Our Own Stories : Cusack, Kiddle and Chauncey Gillian Polack , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 99 2017;
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