Allan John Wills

Reading Country second edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If you liked the movies The Da Vinci Code or National Treasure with all their cryptic and intriguing clues, then it is likely that you will find this little book a good though challenging read too. The mystery starts with the author's lines in a school play about Tommy Windich, a 19^th century Aboriginal explorer: "I'd better hurry or I'll miss the mail." So begins a lifelong search for their meaning. The only clues to an explanation are the gravesite of the explorer, formerly in a picturesque bayside location now surrounded by Esperance port infrastructure, and a restored gravestone in the local museum.

While the impressive slate gravestone can be read as a plain text memorial to the explorer, there is much more to be found hidden on the gravestone. Take a journey via the gravestone inscription into the surrounding granite landscape 'henge' of Esperance Bay. The cluster of artefacts on the gravestone depicts a cultural map of Boodja (homeland) of local Noongars and directions to the Boodja of the occupant of the grave. This represents probably the first textual acknowledgement by colonists, of the relationship to 'Country' of Aboriginals in colonial Western Australia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Allan J. Wills
• Seitenzahl: 82
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780645764727
• Artikelnr.: 70065322