Collection: Reference

A pictorial guide to Highway One, Central Australian and Tasmanian sites and places important to traditional and contemporary Aboriginal life; includes history, art, religion of particular clans, present communities and organisations, biographies; many archival photographs.

This area, in the Pilbarra region contains the richest body of rock art in the world, with an estimated one million images carved into the ancient rocks. More than 600 photographs reveal the diverse imagery including marine fauna and land animals.

Explains how the Aboriginal people have actively worked and changed their environment, often by means of fire. Their management of the country has allowed them to survive and prosper, to live through droughts and reap the benefits of good times

The first section of the book is an index of subjects and of the patron saints associated with them. This is followed by saints' biographies, arranged alphabetically. this includesthe history of each patronage.