Further Reading

Chapter 1: Recalling the Past

Atwater, B. F. et al. 2005. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 – Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Barber, E. W. & P. T. Barber. 2004. When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Beaglehole, E. & P. Beaglehole. 1938. Ethnology of Pukapuka. Vol. 150, Bulletin. Honolulu: BP Bishop Museum.

Bronowski, J. 1974. The Ascent of Man. Boston: Little, Brown.

Clark, E. 1953. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kelly, L. 2016. The Memory Code. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Kingdon, J. 1996. Self-made Man: Human Evolution From Eden to Extinction. Chichester: Wiley.

Ong, W. 1982. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge.

Piccardi, L. & W. B. Masse, eds. 2007. Myth and Geology. London: Geological Society of London.

Ricci, E. 1969. I Peligni Superequani la Sicinnide e le Origini di Secinaro. Sulmona: Italia Editoriale.

van den Berg, R. 2002. Nyoongar People of Australia: Perspectives on Racism and Multiculturalism. Leiden: Brill.

Vitaliano, D. 1973. Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Chapter 2: Words that Matter in a Harsh Land

Berndt, R. M. & C. H. Berndt. 1996. The World of the First Australians. Aboriginal Traditional Life: Past and Present. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Blewett, R. S., ed. 2012. Shaping a Nation: A Geology of Australia. Canberra: Geoscience Australia and ANU E Press.

Carnegie, D. W. 1898. Spinifex and Sand. London: Arthur Pearson.

Cook, J. 1893. Captain Cook’s Journal During his First Voyage Round the World Made In H.M. Bark ‘Endeavour’ 1768–71 (A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS). London: Elliot Stock.

Flannery, T. F. 1994. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People. Chatswood: Reed.

Gammage, B. 2011. The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Giles, E. 1889. Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration, Being A Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions Into and Through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876. London: Sampson Low.

Gill, A. M. et al., eds. 1981. Fire and the Australia Biota. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science.

Haygarth, H. W. 1861. Recollections of Bush Life in Australia. London: John Murray.

Meeham, B. & N. White, eds. 1990. Hunter-Gatherer Demography, Past and Present. Sydney: University of Sydney.

Mitchell, T. 1848. Journal of an Expedition Into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria. London: Longman, Brown, Green.

Mulvaney, D. J. & J. Kamminga. 1999. Prehistory of Australia. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen and Unwin.

Parkinson, S. 1773. A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship the Endeavour. London: Printed privately for Stansfield Parkinson.

Sturt, C. 1834. Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831. 2nd edn. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder.

Thomson, D. 1975. Bindibu Country. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson.

van Gennep, A. 1906. Mythes et Légendes d’Australie. Paris: Guilmoto.

Chapter 3: Australian Aboriginal Memories of Coastal Drowning

Berndt, C. H. & R. M. Berndt. 1994. The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions/Bear & Co.

Berndt, R. M. & C. H. Berndt. 1996. The World of the First Australians. Aboriginal Traditional Life: Past and Present. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Cane, S. 2002. Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. North Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

Cooper, H. M. 1955. The Unknown Coast: A Supplement. Adelaide: Advertiser Printing Office.

Dawson, J. 1881. Australian Aborigines: The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Melbourne: George Robertson.

Dixon, R. M. 1972. The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. Vol. 40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dixon, R. M. 1980. The Languages of Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dixon, R. M. W. 1977. A Grammar of Yidiny, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dixon, R. M. W. 1991. Words of Our Country: Stories, Place Names and Vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal Language of the Cairns-Yarrabah Region. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

Falkiner, S. & A. Oldfield. 2000. Lizard Island: The Journal of Mary Watson. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen and Unwin.

Fison, L. & A. W. Howitt. 1880. Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Melbourne: George Robertson.

Flinders, M. 1814. A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty’s ship The Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner. 2 vols. London: G and W Nicol.

Flood, J. 2006. The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen and Unwin.

Gribble, E. R. B. 1932. The Australian Aboriginal. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.

Hiatt, L. R. 1978. Australian Aboriginal Concepts. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Isaacs, J. 1980. Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History. Sydney: Lansdowne Press.

Krichauff, S. 2011. Nharrungga Wargunni Bugi-Buggillu: A Journey Through Narungga History. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press.

Kuhn, D. & C. Freeman, eds. 2012. Georges River Estuary Handbook. Georges River, New South Wales: Georges River Combined Councils Committee.

Lampert, R. J. 1981. The Great Kartan Mystery. Vol. 5. Terra Australis. Canberra: Australian National University.

Massola, A. 1968. Bunjil’s Cave: Myths, Legends and Superstitions of the Aborigines of South-east Australia. Melbourne: Lansdowne.

McCrae, H., ed. 1934. Georgiana’s Journal: Melbourne a Hundred Years Ago [Diary of Georgiana McCrae]. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.

Meyer, H. E. A. 1846. Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribes, South Australia. Adelaide: Dehane.

Moore, G. F. 1884. Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia; and also A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language of the Aborigines. London: Walbrook (facsimile edition 1978 by University of Western Australia Press).

Morris, J. 2001. The Tiwi: From Isolation to Cultural Change. Darwin: NTU Press.

Mulvaney, J. & N. Green. 1992. Commandant of Solitude: The Journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828–1831. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press.

Niall, B. 1994. Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Noonuccal, O. 1990. Australian Legends and Landscapes. Sydney: Random House.

Nunn, P. D. 2007. Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific During the Last Millennium. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Nunn, P. D. 2009. Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Osborne, C. R. 1974. The Tiwi Language. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (Australian Aboriginal Series 55, Linguistic Series 21).

Parker, K. L. 1959. Australian Legendary Tales. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.

Piccardi, L. & W. B. Masse, eds. 2007. Myth and Geology. London: Geological Society of London.

Reed, A. W. 1965. Myths and Legends of Australia. Sydney: Reed.

Reed, A. W. 1993. Aboriginal Myths, Legends and Fables. Chatswood, New South Wales: Reed.

Roberts, A. & C. P. Mountford. 1989. The Dawn of Time: Australian Aboriginal Myths. Blackwood, South Australia: Art Australia.

Robinson, G. A. 2008. Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834. 2nd edn. Launceston: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Quintus Publishing.

Rogers, H. 1957. The Early History of the Mornington Peninsula. Mornington, Melbourne: Mornington Leader.

Roughsey, D. 1971. Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal. Sydney: Reed.

Russell, A. 1934. A Tramp-Royal in Wild Australia. London: Cape.

Ryan, L. 2012. Tasmanian Aborigines: A History Since 1803. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Smith, J. 1880. Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of their Habits, Customs, Legends and Language. Adelaide: Government Printer.

Smith, W. R. 1930. Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals. London: Harrap.

Taplin, G. 1873. The Narrinyeri: An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines Inhabiting the Country Around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert and Coorong, and the Lower Part of the River Murray. Adelaide: Government Printer.

Tench, W. 1793. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, Including an Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its Natural Productions. London: Nicol and Sewell.

Unaipon, D. 2001. Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press.

Welsby, T. 1967. The Collected Works of Thomas Welsby. A. K. Thomson (ed.). 2 vols. Brisbane: Jacaranda Press.

Wright, R. V. S. 1971. Archaeology of the Gallus Site, Koonalda Cave. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Chapter 4: The Changing Ocean Surface

Britton, H. 1870. Fiji in 1870, Being the Letters of ‘The Argus’ Special Correspondent. Melbourne: Samuel Mullen.

Dixon, R. M. 1980. The Languages of Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gaffney, V. et al. 2009. Europe’s Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland. York: Council for British Archaeology.

Hopley, D. et al. 2007. Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, Diversity and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mol, D. et al. 2008. The Saber-toothed Cat. Norg: Uitgeverij DrukWare.

Nunn, P. D. 1999. Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin: Chronologies, Causes, Consequences. New York: Wiley.

Nunn, P. D. 2007. Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific During the Last Millennium. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Chapter 5: Other Oral Archives of Ancient Coastal Drowning

Ashbee, P. 1974. Ancient Scilly: From the First Farmers to the Early Christians. Newton Abbot: David and Charles.

Barber, E. W. & P. T. Barber. 2004. When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Borlase, W. 1758. The Natural History of Cornwall. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Camden, W. 1590. Britannia siue Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio. London: Eliot’s Court Press.

Carew, R. 1723. The Survey of Cornwall. And an Epistle Concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. London: Samuel Chapman.

Doble, G. H. 1962. The Saints of Cornwall, Part II. Truro: Dean and Chapter of Truro Cathedral.

Flemming, N. 1972. Cities in the Sea. 2nd edn. London: New England Library.

Fox, C. & B. Dickens, eds. 1950. The Early Cultures of North-west Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Guyot, C. 1979. The Legend of the City of Ys. Translated by D. Cavanagh. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Jones, G. & T. Jones. 2001. The Mabinogion. New York: Knopf.

North, F. J. 1957. Sunken Cities: Some Legends of the Coast and Lakes of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Nunn, P. D. 2009. Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Poingdestre, J. 1889. Caesarea; or, A Discourse of the Island of Jersey. St Helier: Le Feuvre.

Ramaswamy, S. 2004. The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rao, S. R. 1999. The Lost City of Dvaraka. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

Sébillot, P. 1899. Légendes Locales de la Haute-Bretagne. Nantes: Société des Bibliophiles Bretons.

Stanley, J.-D. 2007. Geoarchaeology: Underwater Archaeology in the Canopic Region in Egypt. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology.

Stewart, I. S. & C. Vita-Finzi, eds. 1998. Coastal Tectonics. London: Geological Society of London.

Wilson, J. M. 1870. The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: Fullarton.

Chapter 6: What Else Might We Not Realise We Remember?

Alvarez, A. 1926. El Meteorito del Chaco. Buenos Aires: Peuser.

Archer, M. et al. 1991. Riversleigh, The Story of Animals in Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia. Sydney: Reed Books.

Barrett, C. 1946. The Bunyip and Other Mythical Monsters and Legends. Melbourne: Reed and Harris.

Blong, R. 1982. The Time of Darkness: Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

Charachidzé, G. 1986. Prométhée ou le Caucase. Paris: Flammarion.

Dawson, J. 1881. Australian Aborigines: The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Melbourne: George Robertson.

Dixon, R. 1984. Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.

Dixon, R. M. W. 1991. Words of Our Country: Stories, Place Names and Vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal Language of the Cairns-Yarrabah Region. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

Dundes, A., ed. 1988. The Flood Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Forth, G. 1998. Beneath the Volcano: Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification Among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press.

Forth, G. 2008. Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective. Oxford: Routledge.

Gaiman, N. 2017. Norse Mythology. London: Bloomsbury.

Gerritsen, R. 2011. Beyond the Frontier: Explorations in Ethnohistory. Canberra: Batavia Online Publishing.

Howitt, A. W. 1904. The Native Tribes of South-east Australia. London: Macmillan.

Johnson, R. W. 2013. Fire Mountains of the Islands: A History of Volcanic Eruptions and Disaster Management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Canberra: ANU E Press.

Kennett, J. P. et al. 2002. Methane Hydrates in Quaternary Climate Change: The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis. Washington DC: American Geophysical Union.

Kroeber, A. L. 1976. Yurok Myths. Berkeley: University of California Press.

McAllister, P. 2010. Pygmonia: My Quest for the Secret Land of the Pygmies. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.

McCalla, A. 2013. The Creationist Debate: The Encounter Between the Bible and the Historical Mind. 2nd edn. New York: Bloomsbury.

Mjöberg, E. 1918. Bland Stenåldersmänniskor i Queenslands Wildmarker (Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness). Trans. S. M. Fryer. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers.

Murray, P. F. & P. Vickers-Rich. 2004. Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Nunn, P. D. 1994. Oceanic Islands. Oxford: Blackwell.

Nunn, P. D. 2009. Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Opit, G. 2001. ‘The Bunyip’. Myths and Monsters 2001, Sydney.

Peck, C. W. 1933. Australian Legends. Melbourne: Lothian.

Sanday, P. R. 2007. Aboriginal Paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater: Track of the Rainbow Serpent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Smith, J. 1880. Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits, Customs, Legends and Language. Adelaide: Government Printer.

Smyth, R. B. 1878. The Aborigines of Victoria: With Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania. London: John Ferres.

Vitaliano, D. 1973. Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

Winchester, S. 2003. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883. London: Viking.

Chapter 7: Have We Underestimated Ourselves?

Golsan, R. J. 2002. René Girard and Myth: An Introduction. New York: Routledge.

Ong, W. 1982. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge.

Oppenheimer, S. 1998. Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Thompson, S. 1977. The Folktale. Oakland: University of California Press.