Roundabout At Bangalow: An Intimate Chronicle

Author: Shirley Walker

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Price : $24.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780702233678
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
Imprint : University of Queensland Press
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Weight (g) : 0.204
Publication date : 01 March 2003
Dimensions : 198mm X mm X 19mm
Produced in : Australia
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Author : Shirley Walker
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Dewey classification : 994.04092
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Description

Illustrates how the author has experienced the insularity of small towns, the rigid class and caste divisions, and the terrible effects of two world wars on many families. The narrative roams east to the abundance of Byron Bay and north to the hardships of a soldier settler farm on the Burdekin.

Awards

Shortlisted for Westfield/Waverley Library Literary Award 2002.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.