Wherever I go : Myles Lalor's 'oral history' / edited, with an introduction and afterword by Jeremy Beckett
- Bib ID:
- 2152256
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lalor, Myles, 1928-1988
- Description:
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- Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2000
- xii, 179 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0522849180 (paperback)
- Summary:
-
Lalor gives a sometimes angry but more often funny account of what it was like to be a part-Aboriginal man in outback Australia. He grew up with colour prejudice among his own relatives, was put in a boys' home and ran away, and did various kinds of work. He recorded on tape these detailed recollections of his extraordinary life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-176) and index.
- Subject:
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- Lalor, Myles, 1928-1988
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Biography
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- History - Oral history
- Literature and stories - Non fiction
- Menindee (NW NSW SI54-03)
- Birdsville Track (NE SA SG54, SH54)
- Uralla (NSW N Coast SH56-10)
- Cunnamulla (SW Qld SH55-02)
- Wilcannia (NW NSW SH54-16)
- Kinchela (NSW N Coast SH56-10)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Beckett, Jeremy, 1931-2022
- Also Titled:
- Myles Lalor's 'oral history'
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2092 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2022
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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