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2000, pb, 240x170mm, 160pp, b&w photographs,
RRP $29.95 incl. GST
ISBN (10)
0 85575 351 X
ISBN (13)
978 0 85575 351 1
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I'm the One that Know this Country
The Story of Jessie Lennon and Coober Pedy
LENNON, Jessie and Michele MADIGAN (ed.)
Availability: Out of Print
Matutjara woman Jessie Lennon takes readers on a journey through her life in the desert regions of South Australia —from travelling for traditional ceremonies as a child, to joining other senior people in the ongoing fight for compensation over British nuclear tests at Maralinga and Emu.
Told with warmth, humour and determination, her stories give an Anangu (Aboriginal) perspective not only of daily survival in Australia’s driest country, but of significant events in settler history. She tells of early contact with white people such as Daisy Bates, of life in missions and bush towns like Kingoonya and Coober Pedy, of the impact of the Transcontinental railway and the burgeoning pastoral and opal mining industries, and of nuclear fallout that came without warning. The stories are juxtaposed with valuable historical photographs and background information relating to the times, places and people of her life.
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