Craig Cormick, Darren Rix

Warra Warra Wai

How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People

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Produktbeschreibung

For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm
• ISBN-13: 9781761424021
• ISBN-10: 1761424025
• Artikelnr.: 71230682

Autorenporträt

Darren Rix, a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man with Ngarigo bloodlines, grew up in the tin huts and tents of ‘Silver City’, South Nowra, with his eleven siblings. His family later got their first house in the Bega Valley, and he attended school in Bega. At fourteen, Darren moved to Ngunnawal country – Canberra – to which he has songline ties through his Ngarigo bloodlines. He has worked as a radio reporter for the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association, and with the Ngunnawal people as a cultural sites officer in Canberra. Darren is an accomplished musician, as was his uncle, Archie Roach. He has appeared in the TV program Rake. Darren has six children and twelve grandchildren.