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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Wandering with Intent
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'To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt — and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life.

'In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Australia, where she is engaged in long-established collaborations of mapping, storytelling, and placemaking. Celebrated as one of the few Australian writers who both lives within and can articulate the complexities and tensions that arise in the spaces between Aboriginal and settler Australia, Mahood writes passionately and eloquently about the things that capture her senses and demand her attention — art, country, people, and writing. Her compelling evocation of desert landscapes and tender, wry observations of cross-cultural relationships describe people, places, and ways of living that are familiar to her but still strange to most non-Indigenous Australians.

'At once a testament to personal freedom and a powerful argument for Indigenous self-determination, Wandering with Intent demonstrates, with candour, humour, and hope, how necessary and precious it is for each of us to choose how to live.' (Publication summary)

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    • Carlton North, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2022 .
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      • Published1st November 2022
      ISBN: 9781925713251

Works about this Work

Best Books of 2023 : Our Experts Share the Books That Have Stayed with Them Julienne Van Loon , Anna Clark , Heidi Norman , Carol Lefevre , Peter Mares , Jen Webb , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 December 2023;

— Review of Between Water and the Night Sky Simone Lazaroo , 2023 single work novel ; Graft : Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land Maggie MacKellar , 2023 single work autobiography ; Borderland Graham Akhurst , 2023 single work novel ; The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop , 2023 single work novel ; Wandering with Intent Kim Mahood , 2022 selected work essay ; Eventually Everything Connects Sarah Firth , 2023 selected work essay graphic novel
Mapping the Grey Zone : An Essayist Comfortable with Uncertainty Shannyn Palmer , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 449 2022; (p. 54-55)

— Review of Wandering with Intent Kim Mahood , 2022 selected work essay

'Maps are central to Kim Mahood’s practice as a writer, artist, and intercultural collaborator. She began making them in the wake of her father’s death in a helicopter mustering accident thirty years ago. This tragic event compelled her to make a pilgrimage to the country where she spent her late childhood and teenage years living on Mongrel Downs cattle station in the Tanami Desert. This journey became the subject of her award-winning memoir, Craft for a Dry Lake (2001). This journey set in motion a renewed relationship with the place that has seen her return to the Tanami annually for more than twenty years. The relationships that developed during this period resulted in Mahood’s longstanding preoccupation with maps and mapmaking developing into collaborative mapping projects with Walmajarri and Jaru peoples, the contours of which she traces in her second book Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories (2016).' (Introduction) 

Kim Mahood’s Wandering with Intent Redefines the Australian Frontier Tony Hughes-d'Aeth , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 December 2022;

— Review of Wandering with Intent Kim Mahood , 2022 selected work essay

'Kim Mahood came to prominence with the publication of her first book, Craft for a Dry Lake  (2001), which detailed her efforts to reconnect with the land of her upbringing, a cattle station in the Tanami Desert.'

Kim Mahood’s Wandering with Intent Redefines the Australian Frontier Tony Hughes-d'Aeth , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 December 2022;

— Review of Wandering with Intent Kim Mahood , 2022 selected work essay

'Kim Mahood came to prominence with the publication of her first book, Craft for a Dry Lake  (2001), which detailed her efforts to reconnect with the land of her upbringing, a cattle station in the Tanami Desert.'

Mapping the Grey Zone : An Essayist Comfortable with Uncertainty Shannyn Palmer , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 449 2022; (p. 54-55)

— Review of Wandering with Intent Kim Mahood , 2022 selected work essay

'Maps are central to Kim Mahood’s practice as a writer, artist, and intercultural collaborator. She began making them in the wake of her father’s death in a helicopter mustering accident thirty years ago. This tragic event compelled her to make a pilgrimage to the country where she spent her late childhood and teenage years living on Mongrel Downs cattle station in the Tanami Desert. This journey became the subject of her award-winning memoir, Craft for a Dry Lake (2001). This journey set in motion a renewed relationship with the place that has seen her return to the Tanami annually for more than twenty years. The relationships that developed during this period resulted in Mahood’s longstanding preoccupation with maps and mapmaking developing into collaborative mapping projects with Walmajarri and Jaru peoples, the contours of which she traces in her second book Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories (2016).' (Introduction) 

Best Books of 2023 : Our Experts Share the Books That Have Stayed with Them Julienne Van Loon , Anna Clark , Heidi Norman , Carol Lefevre , Peter Mares , Jen Webb , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 December 2023;

— Review of Between Water and the Night Sky Simone Lazaroo , 2023 single work novel ; Graft : Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land Maggie MacKellar , 2023 single work autobiography ; Borderland Graham Akhurst , 2023 single work novel ; The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop , 2023 single work novel ; Wandering with Intent Kim Mahood , 2022 selected work essay ; Eventually Everything Connects Sarah Firth , 2023 selected work essay graphic novel
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