Title Yahoo Creek : an Australian mystery / Tohby Riddle with Peter Williams

Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019 ©2019

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MELB CRC	398.2 Rid/Yca		AVAILABLE

Description 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm Summary Luminous images accompanied by newspaper extracts dating back to the early 1800s and words by Ngiyampaa Elder Peter Williams explore the ongoing mystery of yahoo encounters. 'He was surprised to observe a hairy human form, about seven feet in height, walking in the bush.' Queanbeyan Age, 24 August 1886. Throughout the first century or so of Australian settlement by Europeans, the pages of colonial newspapers were haunted by reports of a bewildering phenomenon: the mysterious yahoo or hairy man ... But what was it? Yahoo Creek breathes life into this little-known piece of Australian history - which, by many accounts, is a history still in the making. 'These stories are not my stories or your stories, they're our stories.' Peter Williams, Ngiyampaa Elder Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Audience Ages 7-11 Notes Shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for the 2020 "Eve Pownall Award" Subject Monsters -- Juvenile literature Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile literature Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature Curiosities and wonders -- Australia -- Juvenile literature Monsters -- Australia -- Juvenile literature Animals, Mythical -- Australia -- Juvenile literature Animals -- Australia -- Juvenile literature Cryptozoology -- Australia -- Juvenile literature Primates -- Australia -- Juvenile literature Monsters in mass media -- Juvenile literature Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Juvenile literature SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature Australia -- History -- 1901-1922 -- Juvenile literature Australia -- Folklore Genre/Form Folklore. History. Juvenile works. Author Williams, Peter, author

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