Remembering Aboriginal Heroes

Price: $29.95

by John Ramsland & Christopher Mooney

A celebration of great Australians of Aboriginal descent.

 

Albert Namatjira was a great watercolour landscape artist. Harold Blair was an outstandingly charismatic concert tenor of vast audience appeal. Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth starred in Charles Chauvel's ground-breaking Australian movie, "Jedda". Reg Saunders was a highly decorated war hero and the first Aboriginal commissioned officer in the permanent Australian armed forces. Harry Penrith (later known as Burnum Burnum) was a brilliant and versatile teenage sporting star and later a public figure of charisma and controversy.

These and other figures have risen to prominence in Australian history: inspirational icons of Aboriginal descent, representative of the culture of the day and of their own people. Some have permanently influenced the minds of Australians and remain famous to this day. Others have been unjustly forgotten. "Remember Aboriginal Heroes" offers an unparalleled biographical exploration of their lives, offering an understanding of the resilient Aboriginal culture and its vital place in Australia society.