World That Was

by Catherine H. Berndt and Ronald M. Berndt

This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged Ronald Berndt to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774804785
• ISBN13: 9780774804783
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 624 Pages