In Someone Else s Country Peter Docker takes the reader on a profound journey into contemporary Aboriginal Australia. From his early life on an outback station to his work as an actor living in St Kilda, he is drawn into the world of Indigenous Australia. With the Mob he experiences the highs and lows of creating theatre, film and television – the accolades, the rewards, the attention of the media. But after the shows he crosses back into the war zone, where people are being destroyed by violence, drugs, alcohol, third world diseases and the hostile attitudes of the wider Australian community. Brutally honest, heart-wrenchingly moving and often wonderfully funny, Someone Else s Countryis the first book to seriously approach the issue of how a wadjula (white man) can respond emotionally and practically to the issues faced by contemporary, urban Aboriginals.Peter Docker was born in a small South West town called Narrogin and grew up on a station near Esperance. Docker is a professional actor with an impressive resume. This book documents his insightful journey into an Australia not many whitefellas are familiar with. “The country inside our country and outside, all around at the same time.” While on tour, working with an Aboriginal theatre company, he put pen to paper and Someone Else’s Country is the result. It moves through many stories from life on the road with his Indigenous colleagues, at times very funny, at others very sad and deeply moving. Docker also relates experiences from his life outside the life of a travelling actor, stories from childhood, adolescence and adulthood. He writes about the “invisibleness” of Aboriginal people in the wider community and contrasts this with his own invisibleness when in the company of Aboriginal people. This is an intense and unusual story that readers are fortunate to share in. #1219R pp. 415