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y separately published work icon Yahoo Creek : An Australian Mystery single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Yahoo Creek : An Australian Mystery
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'Luminous images, accompanied by newspaper extracts dating back to the early 1800s and words by Ngiyampaa Elder Peter Williams explore the ongoing mystery of yahoo encounters.

'Throughout the first century or so of Australian settlement by Europeans, the pages of colonial newspapers were haunted by reports of a bewildering phenomenon: the mysterious yahoo or hairy man...

'But what was it?

'Yahoo Creek breathes life into this little-known piece of Australian history - which, by many accounts, is a history still in the making.'  (Publication summary)

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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2019 .
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      • Published March 2019

      ISBN: 9781760631451
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