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Issue Details: First known date: 1964... 1964 Eaters of the Lotus
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p.28-32; Notes on Victoria River Downs Station, half castes not paid a working mans wage; p.58-60; Examples of life for the fringe dwellers - gin burglary, attempts at assimilation; p.80-81; Life at Hooker Creek (northern Wailbri); p.81-82; The Murranji track; p.142-144; Notes on the Malak-Malak & Woolwonga massacres, tales of Nemarluk & tracker Bul-Bul; p.151-156; Effect of mining on Gove; duel with nulla nullas (Andilyagwas), founding of settlement on Groote Eylandt by Gray; p.160-173; Policies of assimilation and problems, natives ideas.(Libraries Australia record)

Notes

  • Dedication: To my friends in the North who eat the Lotus

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Brisbane, Queensland,: Jacaranda Press , 1964 .
      Extent: xv, 184p, [16]p of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Roger B. Nott, Administrator of the Northern Territory. (vii-viii).
Last amended 14 Oct 2008 08:44:20
Subjects:
  • Northern Territory,
  • 1945-1965
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