WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL
A collection of mostly Western Australian stories based on Bunbury’s oral history radio features. It is a tapestry of snapshots across time from before European settlement through to the late twentieth century. Stories range from the fascinating account of the 1711 wreck of the Dutch ship, Zuytdorp; an Australian soldier’s remarkable escape and lone voyage across the Mediterranean in the 1940s; and the inspiring late twentieth century journey of a rural community to Reconciliation.
First Edition. 269 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. #091022
1. A Lost Ship – Lost People
The Zuytrp story 7
2. A Tale of Two Priests
The Gribbes – father and son 39
3. Trouble on th Wharves
Spanish flu and strife, 1919 61
4. A Vision Splendid
The de Ga is story – Kendenup 85
5. Strange Here, trange There
The Migration Experience 115
6. The Shiver That Went through Us
Memories of World War Two 151
7. All I Saw Were Seabirds
Alone voyage across the Mediterranean, 1942 167
8. Nowhere to Run
The Meckering Earthquake, 1968 193
9. Christmas Island
Only a bus stop, never a terminal 219
10. Kojonup – Place of Healing?
A Reconciliation story 243.