Free Diving Free Diving:Default Title 1996 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK

1996 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS

thought provoking

Based on the concepts in Bruce Pascoe's highly acclaimed book Dark Emu

POETRY & INDIGENOUS WRITING

Cooee Mittigar presents an important tool for learning

Free Diving Free Diving:Default Title 1996 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOKA poignant tribute to the Aboriginal men and women who worked in the pearling industry as free divers in the late nineteenth century in Western Australia. The fictionalised lyrical narrative is based on the celebrated song Free Diving by singersongwriter Lorrae Coffin. It sensitively reflects the emotional journey of a young man who leaves family and country to work on a lugger with Japanese and Malay divers by his side. Bronwyn Houstons illustrations