Hunters and Trackers of the Australian Desert

By Pat Lowe

Australian Aborigines are legendary hunters and trackers. Few people have more than a sketchy idea of the skills they have to master from early childhood onwards in order to provide for their own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1877058025
• ISBN13: 9781877058028
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Rosenberg Pub Pty Ltd
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A truly unique blend of observation and personal experience

Australia's Aborigines are legendary hunters and trackers, but few outside of Australia have any inkling of what's involved in their art. Enger Pat Lowe, who migrated from England to Australia in 1972, and who met Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike, spending three years with him in the desert hunting and exploring his country. Her Hunters And Trackers Of The Australian Desert thus provides a truly unique blend of observation and personal experience.

The LOWE Down on the BUSHMEN from Down Under!

Superb look into the primitive world of Australia's legendary hunter/trackers, the Aborigines. This book is an oversized soft cover made with quality paper. The book is heavily illustrated with line drawings, B & W and color photography, with the later being prevalent. This book goes into great detail describing the lifestyle of these Bushmen (Pre and post contact with Europeans). It covers a substantial amount of information about the art of tracking, primarily how it is a body of various skills and knowledge (botany, primitive navigation, and understanding animal behavior, to name but a few skills). I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in culture, nature, and in particular tracking. I do have to say it is a very hard title to find, I ordered it three or four times with no luck (And it is listed as a obtainable title, so beware!), finally I had to purchase it through a used book dealer at more then double its cost. But it was worth every cent. I provided the table of contents;***************AcknowledgmentIntroduction1 - Why Track?2 - The Hunter's Tool Kit3 - Learning To Track4 - What Tracks Say5 - Tracking Clues6 - Tracking News7 - Fire8 - The Flight Of The Crow9 - Water10 - Tracks And The Law11 - A Search And A Short Story12 - Yesterday And TodayWalmajarri Pronunciation GuideGlossary Of Walmajarri Words And PhrasesGlossary Of Other Australian TermsFurther ReadingIndex(Total page count is 112)***************