That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011.

Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance, but with him, it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together...

Told through the eyes of black and white, young and old, this story is about a fledgling Western Australian community in the early 1800s known as the 'friendly frontier'.

Poetic, warm-hearted and bold, it is a story that shows that first contact did not have to lead to war.