Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians Discovered Captain Cook & What They Tell About the Coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix & Craig Cormick

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition.

Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770.

We know the European story from diaries, journals and letters. For the first time, this is the other side. Who were the people watching the Endeavour sail by? How did they understand their world, and what sense did they make of this strange vision? And what was the impact of these first encounters with Europeans? The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed. (publisher blurb)