Some recent books on central Australia

Some good books on central Australia

Stojanovski, Andrew. 2010. Dog ear cafe. Melbourne : Hybrid * 'How the Mt Theo Program beat the curse of petrol sniffing'
Mahood, Kim. 2000. Craft for a dry lake. Sydney: Anchor. 266pp. ISBN 1863591397 * based around the author's growing up on Mongrel Downs, and recent revisiting there
Murray, Neil. 1993. Sing for me, countryman. 336pp. Rydalmere: Hodder & Stoughton. Sceptre Books. ISBN 0340578564 $14.95 * the composer and singer (ex-Warrumpi Band) who went to Papunya first as a school teacher.
Jacobson, Howard. 1987. In the Land of Oz. Penguin 1988. 380pp. * covers his travel all over Australia, and includes some good chapters set in the Centre. Humorous.
Hill, Barry. 1994. The Rock: travelling to Uluru. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. xv+319pp., [8]pp. of plates. (A Rathdowne Book.) ISBN 1863737782 $39.95; 186373712X (pbk.) $24.95

Dean Ashenden. 2022. Telling Tennant’s story: The strange career of the Great Australian Silence. Black Inc.
Adrian Hyland's novels set in the Tennant Creek region: Diamond dove (2006) = Moonlight downs = Outback bastard : Kriminalroman (Frankfurt am Main) = Le dernier rêve de la colombe diamont (2009); and Gunshot road (2010) (background article in The Age) * German translation reviewed by Corinna Erckenbrecht in Zeitschrift für Australienstudien 24,107-111.
Peter Goldsworthy's novel Three dog night (2003) = Nacht für drei hunde (2009) has a part set in north central Australia

1994. Australian Phrasebook. (Lonely Planet Language Survival Kit.) ISBN 0-86442-256-3. Hawthorn, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications. Central Australian Languages, pp.96-121 ('compiled by Jenny Tindale, IAD, with contributions from Lizzie Ellis, Gavan Breen and Robert Hoogenraad, and ideas and assistance from Lorna Wilson, Mark MacLean and Ken Grime.' (p.3)
Kerle, J. Anne. 1995. Uluru, Kata-Tjuta & Watarrka = Ayers Rock, the Olgas & Kings Canyon, Northern Territory. National parks field guides. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. * Includes myths recorded by John Willis.
Latz, Peter K. 1995. Bushfires & bushtucker : Aboriginal plant use in Central Australia. Alice Springs, N.T. : IAD Press. ISBN 0949659835 xv+400pp.

Not listed:
Chatwin, Bruce. 1987. The Songlines. 293pp. London: Jonathan Cape. New York: Elizabeth Sifton/Viking.
on which see
Nicholls, Christine. 2019. A wild roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines reconsidered. Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, ROGUERY AND (SUB) VERSIONS 9.9,22-49. De Gruyter; published Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego; and in Open Access via Sciendo; https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.09.02; also published Open Access on Central and Eastern European Online Library.

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