The First Walkabout
Appearance
Author | Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay |
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Language | English |
Genre | Children's fiction |
Publisher | Longmans Green |
Publication date | 1954 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | |
Pages | 129pp |
The First Walkabout is an Australian children's novel first published in 1954. It tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a group that arrived in Australia before the ancestors of the present-day Aboriginal peoples.
Critical reception
[edit]While covering a selection of possible Christmas book gifts for children in The Brisbane Telegraph in 1954, a reviewer noted: "Mr. Tindale is ethnologist at the South Australian museum, and Mr. Lindsay is the well-known authority on the Australian bushland. They have collaborated to produce an authentic and entertaining story of Australia some ten or twelve thousand years ago."[1]
See also
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Categories:
- Australian children's novels
- 1954 Australian novels
- Children's historical novels
- Novels set in prehistory
- CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award-winning works
- 1954 children's books
- Children's books set in Australia
- Children's books set in prehistory
- 1950s children's novel stubs
- Children's historical novel stubs
- 1950s historical novel stubs