Edge of Memory : Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

This non-fiction work explores how oral histories, folk tales, and ancient traditions often accurately preserve memories of real, scientifically verifiable geological events. It examines how indigenous cultures recorded dramatic landscape transformations—such as rapid post-glacial sea-level rises, meteorite impacts, volcanic collapses, and tsunamis—across thousands of years without written language.

First Edition.

• 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 22 cm. #021126
• Folklore — History
• Ocean — Folklore
• Storytelling — History
• Legends
• Oral tradition
• Oral history
• Aboriginal Australians — Social life and customs
• Indigenous peoples — Social life and customs
• Australian