Strangways Brian (1 results)

1st combined ed. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, slight crease top edge last few pages, small crease fore-edge rear cover, minor edgewear. 133 pp. Four Indigenous memoirs from South Australia are combined for the first time. (1) Wendy Harris (Yankunytjatjara) who traces her life journey from her early years as a bush child in the South Australian north-west to her return to the now thriving town of Coober Pedy. Her story gives an insight into some of the behind the scenes history of the South Australian outback. (2) Totty (Harriet) Rankine (Ngarrindjeri) was born and raised on Ngarrindjeri land at Point McLeay / Raukkan on South Australia's Lake Alexandrina, Totty has a comical sense of humour, and an indomitable spirit she inherited from her mother, Annie Rankine MBE. (3) Audrey Wonga (Antikirinya / Yankunytjatjara) was taken away as a baby from her mother on the vast Anna Creek Station of north-eastern South Australia. Audrey was able to keep contact with her family and eventually move back to spend the rest of her life in her beloved outback. (4) Brian Strangways (Kokatha) was 'born out in the open', His early years were with his Kokatha family as they travelled seeking work on the northern South Australian cattle stations. As an adult he survived welding the railway lines in the heat of the Nullarbor and living in the rough and tumble of the SA bush camps. He is another great dry-humoured storyteller, a South Australian survivor indeed.