WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

Aspects of Walmajirri life as told to the author by people who once inhabited the Great Sandy Desert; use of waterholes; childrens games; birth and death; shelter; food, hunting and gathering; medicines; use of fire; cooking; concepts of time and distance.

A rare photographic and textual journey into the life of the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert. Brilliant photographs interact with illustrations by celebrated artist, Jimmy Pike. Pat Lowe was born in England. At the age of eleven she went to boarding school, where she suffered from chilblains and dreamed of migrating to Australia. After working as a postwoman and then spending three years as a secondary school teacher in East Africa, Pat studied psychology. In 1972 she sailed into Fremantle on a Russian ship, and became an Australian citizen as soon as she was eligible. Pat worked as a psychologist in a children’s home and later in Western Australian prisons. Desert Dog won the 1998 Western Australian Premier’s Children’s Book Award and was a Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book. Many of the characters in Feeling the Heat first appeared as younger characters in The Girl With No Name, published by Penguin in 1994. The Girl With No Name was shortlisted for the Multicultural Children’s Literature Award and has been published in Italian. 147 p. : col. ill., map, col. ports. ; 31 cm. reprint #0917/0918/0820 /271021/290624

Indigenous Aboriginal Studies