Home Of The Kadimakara People
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Home Of The Kadimakara People
By (Author) Percy Trezise
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
HarperCollins (Australia) Children's
26th July 2000
Australia
Classifications
Primary and Secondary Educational
Fiction
Childrens picture books
398.20994
Physical Properties
Paperback
32
Width 255mm, Height 210mm, Spine 2mm
140g
Description
Jadianta, Lande and Jalmor are three children of the Kadimakara People who were caught in a storm and stranded across the great lake, Balanorga. Now they are trying to find their way home and in this part of the series, they are in the Land of the Snake people.
Author Bio
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 childrens 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.
