Author | Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay |
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Language | English |
Genre | Children's fiction |
Publisher | Longmans Green |
Publication date | 1954 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | |
Pages | 129pp |
The First Walkabout is an Australian children's novel first published in 1954. It tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a group that arrived in Australia before the ancestors of the present-day Aboriginal peoples.
Critical reception
While covering a selection of possible Christmas book gifts for children in The Brisbane Telegraph in 1954, a reviewer noted: "Mr. Tindale is ethnologist at the South Australian museum, and Mr. Lindsay is the well-known authority on the Australian bushland. They have collaborated to produce an authentic and entertaining story of Australia some ten or twelve thousand years ago."
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