The First Walkabout

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The First Walkabout
Author Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay
CountryAustralia
Language English
GenreChildren's fiction
Publisher Longmans Green
Publication date
1954
Media typePrint
Pages129pp

The First Walkabout is an Australian children's novel first published in 1954. It tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a group that arrived in Australia before the ancestors of the present-day Aboriginal peoples.

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Critical reception

While covering a selection of possible Christmas book gifts for children in The Brisbane Telegraph in 1954, a reviewer noted: "Mr. Tindale is ethnologist at the South Australian museum, and Mr. Lindsay is the well-known authority on the Australian bushland. They have collaborated to produce an authentic and entertaining story of Australia some ten or twelve thousand years ago." [1]

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