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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Mustara
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'The year is 1875 and Thomas Elder of Beltana Station fits out explorer Ernest Giles' expedition to find a way across the desert. This story is told by Emmeline Elder's daughter and Taj an Afghan boy whose camel is thought too young and inexperienced to join the expedition until it saves the lives of Emmeline and Taj.' (Source: QUT Library Catalogue)

Notes

  • This work, like Hawke and Ingpen's Mustara, features the characters of Taj, Emmeline, and Mustara the camel.

  • This is affiliated with Dr Laurel Cohn's Picture Book Diet because it contains representations of food and/or food practices.

    Food depiction
    • Incidental
    • Wildlife
    Food types n/a
    Food practices n/a
    Gender n/a
    Signage n/a
    Positive/negative value n/a
    Food as sense of place
    • Historical
    Setting n/a
    Food as social cohesion n/a
    Food as cultural identity
    • Non-Anglo characters
    • Migrant story
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it contains an Afghan character.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Lothian , 2006 .
      Extent: 1 v. (unpaged)p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0734408994
    • Capalaba, Redland area, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,: Wombat Books , 2015 .
      image of person or book cover 9070884451829180795.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1vp.
      Edition info: 2nd edition
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 March 2015
      ISBN: 9781925139259
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Taj and the Great Camel Trek Rosanne Hawke , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 Z1766288 2011 single work children's fiction children's 'BELTANA SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1875
Twelve-year-old Taj and his camel Mustara are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.
They are joining explorer Ernest Giles on his second attempt to cross the Australian Desert where wild dogs, scorpions, poisonous snakes and a constant shortage of water mean they are never far from disaster.
As if things weren't tough enough, Taj, raised in the ways of the Afghan people, is struggling to find his place in this new and exciting land.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Works about this Work

[Review] Mustara Allison Paterson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 21 no. 2 2006; (p. 32)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
Untitled Ernie Tucker , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 41 no. 2 2006; (p. 82)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
Untitled H. M. Saxby , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 50 no. 3 2006; (p. 47)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
The Art of Communication Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 283 2006; (p. 62-64)
— Review of Woolvs in the Sitee Margaret Wild , 2005 single work picture book ; The Wrong Thing Isobelle Carmody , 2006 single work picture book ; Dimity Dumpty : The Story of Humpty's Little Sister Bob Graham , 2006 single work picture book ; Pip and the Convict Nigel Gray , 2005 single work picture book ; The Boy Who Built the Boat Ross Mueller , 2006 single work picture book ; Grandad's Phase Archimede Fusillo , 2006 single work picture book ; The Smallest Bilby and the Midnight Star Nette Hilton , 2006 single work picture book ; Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book ; My Home in Kakadu Jane Christophersen , 2005 single work picture book ; When Elephants Lived in the Sea Jane Godwin , 2006 single work picture book ; Home Narelle Oliver , 2006 single work picture book
Book Briefs Lucy Sussex , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 March 2006; (p. 7)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 March 2006; (p. 17)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
This Weeks' Selections Katharine England , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 March 2006; (p. 10)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
Book Briefs Lucy Sussex , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 March 2006; (p. 7)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
The Art of Communication Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 283 2006; (p. 62-64)
— Review of Woolvs in the Sitee Margaret Wild , 2005 single work picture book ; The Wrong Thing Isobelle Carmody , 2006 single work picture book ; Dimity Dumpty : The Story of Humpty's Little Sister Bob Graham , 2006 single work picture book ; Pip and the Convict Nigel Gray , 2005 single work picture book ; The Boy Who Built the Boat Ross Mueller , 2006 single work picture book ; Grandad's Phase Archimede Fusillo , 2006 single work picture book ; The Smallest Bilby and the Midnight Star Nette Hilton , 2006 single work picture book ; Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book ; My Home in Kakadu Jane Christophersen , 2005 single work picture book ; When Elephants Lived in the Sea Jane Godwin , 2006 single work picture book ; Home Narelle Oliver , 2006 single work picture book
Untitled H. M. Saxby , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 50 no. 3 2006; (p. 47)
— Review of Mustara Rosanne Hawke , 2006 single work picture book
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