Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station by Shannyn Palmer

3.75 AVERAGE

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3.75
informative reflective slow-paced
A thoughtful history, based largely upon two oral histories, of the Angus Down's station. Palmer is working here to tell history from the perspective of Aṉangu rather than those who colonised their lands. In the process, she unfurls a story of how Tjuki Tjukanku Pumpjack and Sandra Armstrong created community and belonging at the station. It is a thought-provoking book, carefully written, that sits between worlds. Part of its significant contribution is highlighting how much is not known, or understood.