The First Walkabout

The First Walkabout
Author Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Children's fiction
Publisher Longmans Green
Publication date
1954
Media type Print
Pages 129pp

The First Walkabout (1954) is a novel for children by Australian authors Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay, illustrated by Madeleine Boyce. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1955.[1]

Plot outline

The book tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a diminutive race that arrived in Australia before the present-day aborigines' ancestors.

Critical reception

While covering a selection of possible Christmas book gifts for children in The Brisbane Telegraph in 1954, a reviewer noted: "Mr. Tindale is ethnologist at the South Australian museum, and Mr. Lindsay is the well-known authority on the Australian bushland. They have collaborated to produce an authentic and entertaining story of Australia some ten or twelve thousand years ago."[2]

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