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Out of the Desert

Stories from the Walmajarri Storytellers
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Out of the Desert provides an insightful exploration into the strategic and historical significance of the Middle East, focusing on military conflicts and geopolitics. The authors delve into how the region's arid landscapes have shaped its wartime strategies and political outcomes, offering a comprehensive analysis of both historical events and their ongoing impacts on global relations. With a rich narrative, the text examines both past and contemporary military engagements, offering readers a detailed understanding of this pivotal area in world history.
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Out of the Desert

Walmajarri is an aboriginal language of Western Australia. This volume presents 32 stories from the Walmajarri oral tradition, which were collected at different times over the past few decades. They are chosen to illustrate to lives of the people as they (voluntarily and involuntarily) transitioned

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Out of the Desert is a compelling collection of stories, art, and photographs from the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert, in north western Australia. It tells of their remarkable exodus from remote desert country to an unfamiliar modern society.

Within only one generation, the Walmajarri desert dwellers left their traditional places behind to face station life and a world far beyond the sandhills. These accounts of a recent past reveal the challenges of the epic journey north to station country, the courage of the Walmajarri in confronting the unknown, and their first contact with white people.

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ISBN: 9781875641499

Publisher: Magabala Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2002

Country: Australia

Imprint: Magabala Books

Illustration: illustrations

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 281.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

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