The First Walkabout

Plot outline[]

The book tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a diminutive race that arrived in Australia before the present-day aborigines' ancestors.

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]

See also[]

• 1954 in Australian literature

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