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Author Villeminot, Betty.

Title Alcheringa : the eternal dreamtime / Betty Villeminot ; translated from the French by Andrew Riemer ; foreword by Fr. Frank Brennan
Published Sydney : Duffy & Snellgrove, 2004

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Description x, 305 pages ; 20 cm
Summary Written by Betty Villeminot, a French anthropologist who lived in central Australia, Alcheringa tells the story of Nari, an elderly aborigine in the nineteenth century. He recalls the slow destruction of his people and a way of life they believed to be eternal
Notes Translation of: Alcheringa : le temps du rêve éternal. Albin Michel, 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes First published Paris : Albin Michel, 1997. Under title: Alcheringa : le temps de rêve éternel
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Aranda (Australian people) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
Author Riemer, A. P.
LC no. 00002567
ISBN 1876631945 (paperback)
Other Titles Alcheringa : a novel