An Intruders Guide to East Arnhem Land
Andrew McMillan
Winner of the Chief Minister’s NT Book of the Year 2009
Shortlisted for the Chief Minister’s
NT History Book Award 2008
Andrew McMillan’s An Intruder’s Guide To East Arnhem Land is part history, part journalism, part literature, part love story with a people and a place. The writing is both edgy and contemporary; a narrative of history in remote Australia where the echoes of the past continue to resonate with us today. Passionate, sensitive, witty and surprising, this book will give you a sense of Australia and national identity you have never known before.
Arnhem Land: where the first (or even second or third) language is not English and you need to ask permission before travelling across country; where you have to demonstrate respect and observation of the laws of the land and its peoples but none of it is written down.
Andrew McMillan has spent decades visiting Arnhem Land, meeting, talking but mainly listening to people in a place that few outsiders visit. This book offers a unique insight.
from the foreword by Dr Mickey Dewar
RRP $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9803904-1-4
198 x 128 mm | 320 pages | 310 gms