Boomerang Behind an Australian Icon

The author draws on the world's largest boomerang collection housed at the South Australian Museum to describe the boomerang's traditional uses and its more recent flight into western culture - a comprehensive survey of a traditional artefact. 134 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout. Book in very good+ condition with faint mark on back cover.

Australia: Wakefield Press, 2004 Colour and monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. A comprehensive survey of a traditional artefact. The chapters are: antiquity; boomerang dreaming; making boomerangs; how boomerangs fly; the many uses of the boomerang. « This introduction to the boomerang explores its uses for hunting, fishing, fighting, producing music, and in religious ceremonies, and also examines Aboriginal culture and… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1997. Paperback, 17 x 21 cm cm, 134 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0898159431. .

Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1996. Oblong quarto, [vi], 134 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour). Colour pictorial card covers with French flaps; an excellent copy. 'The Aboriginal boomerang has become a mysterious, almost magical object [which] can be used to make fire, and can be used as… Read more about this item

Kent Town, Wakefield Press 2004. 134 p. Paperback (In good condition.)