‘Aboriginal Darwin’, Bauman, T. 2006. Aboriginal Studies Press Excellent book for a self-guided cultural tour around the Darwin area. Interesting to learn the sites of significance around Darwin and the moves to protect these locations which were often not...
‘Kakadu People’, Spencer, B. 2008, David M. Welch, Virginia This includes the notes, pics and thoughts of Sir Baldwin Spencer who was the first Government Protector of Aboriginal people in the NT in the early part of the 1900’s. The focus is on the Gagadju People of...
The Last Roundup’, Baldwin, T & K. 2000, Buffame, Darwin Written by the builders and founders of the Bark Hut Inn on the Arnhem highway it looks at life in the top end in the 70’s and 80’s and the interaction of Aboriginal and non-aboriginal persons and working...
‘True Stories of the Top End’, White, K. 2005, Indra Publishing Contains interesting anecdotes about everything from the murder of the Japanese pearlers in Arnhem Land (1933) to Cyclone Tracey (1974) … an interesting book for an interesting place...
‘Far Country: A short history of the Northern Territory’, Powel A. 2009, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin An incredibly easy to read book of only 181 pages filled with information and stories touching on the forces which shape civilizations and the steam roller...
