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Warra Warra Wai

- How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People
Af: Craig Cormick, Darren Rix Engelsk Paperback

Warra Warra Wai

- How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People
Af: Craig Cormick, Darren Rix Engelsk Paperback
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For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans.

Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770.

We know the European story from diaries, journals and letters. For the first time, this is the other side. Who were the people watching the Endeavour sail by? How did they understand their world and what sense did they make of this strange vision? And what was the impact of these first encounters with Europeans? The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed.

Darren Rix (a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man, radio reporter and Archie Roach’s nephew) and his co-author Craig Cormick travelled to all the places on the east coast that were renamed by Cook, and listened to people’s stories. With their permission, these stories have been woven together with the European accounts and placed in their deeper context: the places Cook named already had names; the places he ‘discovered’ already had peoples and stories stretching back before time; and although Cook sailed on, the empire he represented impacted the people’s lives and lands immeasurably in the years after.

‘Warra Warra Wai’ was the expression called to Cook and his crew when they tried to make landfall in Botany Bay. It has long been interpreted as ‘Go away’, but is perhaps more accurately translated as ‘You are all dead spirits’. In adding the First Nations version of these first encounters to the story of Australian history, this is a book that will sit on Australian shelves alongside Cook’s Journals, Dark Emu and The Fatal Shore as one of our foundational texts.
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For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans.

Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770.

We know the European story from diaries, journals and letters. For the first time, this is the other side. Who were the people watching the Endeavour sail by? How did they understand their world and what sense did they make of this strange vision? And what was the impact of these first encounters with Europeans? The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed.

Darren Rix (a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man, radio reporter and Archie Roach’s nephew) and his co-author Craig Cormick travelled to all the places on the east coast that were renamed by Cook, and listened to people’s stories. With their permission, these stories have been woven together with the European accounts and placed in their deeper context: the places Cook named already had names; the places he ‘discovered’ already had peoples and stories stretching back before time; and although Cook sailed on, the empire he represented impacted the people’s lives and lands immeasurably in the years after.

‘Warra Warra Wai’ was the expression called to Cook and his crew when they tried to make landfall in Botany Bay. It has long been interpreted as ‘Go away’, but is perhaps more accurately translated as ‘You are all dead spirits’. In adding the First Nations version of these first encounters to the story of Australian history, this is a book that will sit on Australian shelves alongside Cook’s Journals, Dark Emu and The Fatal Shore as one of our foundational texts.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781761424021
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1761424025
Kategori: Oprindelige folk
Udg. Dato: 4 sep 2024
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 234mm
Forlag: Simon & Schuster Australia
Oplagsdato: 4 sep 2024
Forfatter(e): Craig Cormick, Darren Rix
Forfatter(e) Craig Cormick, Darren Rix


Kategori Oprindelige folk


ISBN-13 9781761424021


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 25mm


Bredde 154mm


Højde 234mm


Udg. Dato 4 sep 2024


Oplagsdato 4 sep 2024


Forlag Simon & Schuster Australia

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