Land of the Kangaroo People by Percy Trezise

The Kadimakara children, Jadianta, Lande and Jalmor, are helping Wongabel to reach her home tribe, the Woomera people, but they have to pass through the Land of the Kangaroo People... and they are cannibals. Not only that, the Snake Men are probably still pursuing them, so after resting on an island to avoid a hunting group of Kangaroo people the children all move on.

It is Lasca who comes under threat next, when a marsupial wolf decides the young dingo would make a tasty breakfast. Lasca is not easy prey, however, as she knows instinctively how to evade the crushing jaws of the wolf. Lasca manages to get to the camp where the children see her coming, the wolf in pursuit, and together they kill it and save Lasca.

Crossing rivers and traversing the land with the Sister Stars as their guides, the children are getting close to the lands of the Woomera people, when a Kadaicha Man looking for the enemy the elders have decreed must be executed, sees the running children below his rock. He recognises Wongabel as the girl stolen from his tribe and then he spots the pursuing Snake Men... Kadaicha Man is able to fulfil his tribal mission and save the children's lives.

Condition: Very Good Condition with a sticker mark to the cover
Format: Paperback
Age: 4+

Percy Trezise AM (1923 - 2005) was a painter and writer as well as an historian and documenter of Aboriginal rock art. Trezise served in the RAAF during WW2, and from 1956 he worked in northern Australia as an airline pilot. From the air he would gauge areas likely to contain Aboriginal rock art that he would later explore. Trezise collaborated on a series of children’s books with Aboriginal artist Dick Roughsey, and as well as being a member of the Order of Australia, in 2004 he received an Honorary Doctorate from James Cook University.

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