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Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 Ourselves Writ Strange
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'...story of the people who inhabit the unknown areas in Northern Australia and the islands of Torres Strait...' - from book jacket.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Else who first paved the way
  • Epigraph: Did we not know that their blood channelled our rivers, / ...but there they lie, that were ourselves writ strange. - Judith Wright.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Cheshire , 1948 .
      Extent: 320p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Photographs by Alan Marshall.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Cheshire , 1949 .
      Extent: 321p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Photographs by Alan Marshall.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Lansdowne , 1965 .
      Alternative title: These Were My Tribesmen
      Extent: 214p.
      Edition info: 3rd ed.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Photographs by Matcham Skipper.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Rigby , 1965 .
      Alternative title: These Were My Tribesmen
      Extent: 214p.
      Description: illus.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Lansdowne , 1966 .
      Alternative title: These Were My Tribesmen
      Extent: 214p.
      Description: illus.
    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1972 .
      Alternative title: These Were My Tribesmen
      Extent: 214p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0851794084
Alternative title: My takie zhe liudi
Language: Russian
    • Moscow,
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      Russia,
      c
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      Former Soviet Union,
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      Eastern Europe, Europe,
      :
      Nauka ,
      1965 .
      Extent: 206p.
      Description: illus.
Last amended 10 Aug 2006 11:02:08
Subjects:
  • Torres Strait Islands, Queensland,
  • Far North Queensland, Queensland,
  • Northern Territory,
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