Aboriginal Australia & the Torres Strait Islands: Guide to Indigenous Australia (Lonely Planet)

By Lonely Planet and Sarina Singh

Too many visitors to Australia return home without ever experiencing any true contact or knowledge of Australia's indigenous people. This guide helps visitors explore and respect one of the oldest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864501146
• ISBN13: 9781864501148
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A good introduction, with a lot of heart

I'm heading to Australia to work on Aboriginal civil rights issues, and picked up this book a few months ago as an intro. While it is certainly no legal treatise, it is a great introduction to an interesting and diverse group of people and their history and struggles to survive European colonization. The reviewer below seems to object to the obvious emotion with which much of the book is written. You should know that, while it is in large part the work of Lonely Planet writers and researchers, they also went straight to the source and have many, many shorter pieces written by Aboriginal people whom they asked to contribute. If you are looking for a dry, detached work of anthropological research, this is not it. If you want an exposure to a variety of topics in the voices of the people about whom they are written, this is a great resource. It is an admirable achievement from Lonely Planet, and a moving testimonial to the world's oldest continuous culture.

EXCELLENT!!!

I have been researching the discrimination faced by the Aboriginal people for several years. Until I found this book, I'd never seen any book that I thought accurately portrayed the situation. The book is excellent. It contains general information about important issues and has very detailed sections for each state/territory. It is a necessity for anyone interested in the Aboriginal history and culture!