Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope

Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope

Beschreibung des Verlags

It was hot. There was sudden stillness in the late afternoon air and the surface of the small waterhole shone with unnatural smoothness. Fresh pig tracks at water's edge suggested pigs just gone. Two bubbles popped to the surface near the edge of the pool; just decaying vegetation, said my mind. I should have smelt crocodile!


A story of a missionary family in remote aboriginal Australia.


What is it about the Northern Territory that fascinates? I have only to mention it’s name in conversation and people turn to listen. 

Why, for 180 years, has it drawn people from all over to come, stay longer than they imagined and, often, never leave?

This book is a memoir of a family's life in a remote aboriginal community, in Australia's Northern Territory, something the equivalent of remote Canada or Alaska, where few people go. 


The place Oenpelli,(now Gunbalanya) is near Kakadu National Park, made famous in Crocodile Dundee. 


This story tells of changing world as a missionary family and an aboriginal community become part of modern Australia. 


This our family's story, growing amongst the people, animals and places and colours of this this strange land, alongside an aboriginal community going through its own changes; citizenship, alcohol, uranium mining, land rights, outstation development, and community self management.


It is a memoir of growing up in one of the most isolated parts of Australia - in a small aboriginal missionary community in the Northern Territory, something the equivalent of the remote Canada or Alaska. It is the landscape featured in the movie Crocodile Dundee.


It tells of the huge change in this place in the last half century with the coming of land rights and aboriginal self determination. It also tells of my mother and fathers lives and Christian beliefs which motivated their contribution to this change.


It is a story of my memories and love for this remote and beautiful place, in which I lived as a child then worked as an adult and of many NT characters who gave me the memories.It is also the story of me working as an adult across many parts of the NT and about the hardy, outlandish characters that inhabit this place. 


It also tells of my own experience of surviving attack by a large crocodile in a remote swamp

GENRE
Geschichte
ERSCHIENEN
2012
13. Oktober
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
300
Seiten
VERLAG
Beyondbeyond Books
GRÖSSE
438,4
 kB
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