Jackey Jackey / written by Margaret Paice ; illustrated by Walter Cunningham
- Bib ID:
- 2418668
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Paice, Margaret, 1920-
- Description:
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- Sydney : Collins, 1976
- 62 p. : ill., map on endpapers ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0001950282
- Series:
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- Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
- Australians in history series.
- Summary:
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To the people of his tribe he was Galmarra, the Songman; to the men of the ill-fated Kennedy expedition he was Jackey Jackey, the young Aborigine. This slightly built teenager was to be their strength as they faced the mangrove swamps and tropical jungles.
- Notes:
- For children.
- Cited In:
- White, K. Bibliography of Australian children's books, v. 2, no. 643
- Subject:
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- Jackey Jackey, -1854 -- Juvenile literature
- Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848
- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians. Jacky Jacky. Biographies. Juvenile literature
- Indigenous knowledge - Ecology
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Queensland -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cunningham, Walter
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Muir, Marcie. Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1976
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