Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior / Eric Willmot
- Bib ID:
- 490768
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Willmot, Eric
- Description:
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- Sydney : Bantam, 1988, c1987
- 310 p. : 1 ill., 5 maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0947189173 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The novel is delicated to two remarkable Australians who fought and gave their lives against an invader. The first is Pemulwuy who lived in Australia in the last half of the 18th century. Pemuwuy means earth, man of the earth. He was borned around 1756 and died in 1802. He was the rainbow warrior who led the resistance between 1970 and 1802. The second is Charles Nelson Perkins whose spirit and determination are the essence of modern Australia's identity.
- Notes:
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- Previously published: McMahons Point, N.S.W. : Weldons, 1987.
- Bibliography: p. 308-309.
- Subject:
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- Pemulwuy, approximately 1756-1802 -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Feuds and warfare
- Language - Vocabulary - Word lists
- Eora / Iora language (S61) (NSW SI56-05)
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Race relations - Representation - History
- Race relations - Violent
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1987
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