The last of the nomads / W.J. Peasley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peasley, W. J. (William John), 1927-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mandjildjara (Australian people)--Biography.

Mandjildjara (Australian people).

Mandjildjara (Australian people)--Social life and customs.

Travel.

Kyangu, Yatungka.

Kyangu, Warri.

Gibson Desert (W.A.)--Description and travel.

Gibson Desert (W.A.).

Western Australia--Gibson Desert.

Local Subjects:

Kyangu, Warri.

Genre:

Biographies

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Press, 2024.

Summary:

Partners for life, Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a tribal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years. The Last of the Nomads tells the journey of Mudjon, a Mandildjara elder, and anthropologist W.J. Peasley, as together they searched for the exiled couple. This is the extraordinary story of the rescue of Warri and Yatungka, and how they survived for thirty years in the unrelenting Gibson Desert. Described by the Australian Book Review as 'deeply moving', this is the story of Warri and Yatungka, an exiled couple who spent thirty years exiled in the Gibson Desert.

Notes:

First published: 1983

ISBN:

9781760994198

1760994197

OCLC:

1419867391

Publisher Number:

99995951948