Sand Talk

‘A book of cultural and philosophic intrigue. Read it.’ Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.

Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?

Sand Talk provides a template for living. It’s about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everybody and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things.

Most of all it’s about Indigenous thinking, and how it can save the world.

‘One of the best books I ever read…It leaves you gasping. If you care about yourself, the world around you, and where you come from, you’d better read it.’ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and Growing Old

‘An extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming… Unheralded.’ Melissa Lucashenko

‘Radical ideas, bursting with reason.’ Tara June Winch

‘Playful, profound, and fiercely original.’ Deep Time Dreaming