We Won the Victory: Aborigines and Outsiders on the North-West Coast of the Kimberley
FACP, $24.95 pb, 336 pp
Australian History
Winning Stories in the Kimberley
by Mary Anne Jebb •
Ian Crawford’s title announces his book’s challenge: to provide a view of Kimberley history that builds on the foundations of Aboriginal oral tradition. The title is taken from Aboriginal storyteller Sam Woolagoodjah’s account of the first pastoral settlement of the Kimberley in the early 1860s.
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