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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Jilji : Life in the Great Sandy Desert
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Alternative title: You Call It Desert : We Used to Live There
    • Broome, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,: Magabala Books , 2010 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 156p.
      Edition info: New ed.
      Description: col. illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • t.p. This book was previously published under the title Jilji: Life in the Great Sandy Desert

      • Author's note: I wrote this, my first book, twenty years ago... Doing so brought back to me the challenge and excitement of those days, and memories of the knowledgeable and generous people I shared them with.

        Pat Lowe

      • Includes glossary of Walmajarri words, Australian English terms and pronunciation of Walmajarri words(p. 151-156)
      • Illustrated with paintings by Jimmy Pike and photographs by Pat Lowe.
      ISBN: 9781921248115 (pbk.)
Subjects:
  • Great Sandy Desert, Central desert areas, Western Australia,
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