First published in 2019 by Ventura Press
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Copyright © Katherine Johnson 2019
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ISBN: 978-1-925384-70-3 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-920727-32-1 (ebook)
Cover design: Alissa Dinallo
Internal design: WorkingType Design
Extracts from The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context (University of Ottawa Press) are reproduced with the kind permission of Dr Harmut Lutz.
Virchow’s 1880 Zeitschrift für Ethnologie description of the Inuit group appears in English in In the Footsteps of Abraham Ulrikab (Polar Horizons) and is quoted with the kind permission of France Rivet.
Badtjala spirit names, lessons and legends referred to in the novel have as their source the book The Legends of Moonie Jarl (Indigenous Literacy Foundation), written by Badtjala man Wilf Reeves and illustrated by Olga Miller. The stories of the boomerang and the Jun Jaree have been quoted verbatim with the kind permission of Badtjala man Glen Miller, whose uncle was Wilf Reeves and mother Olga Miller. The legend of the formation of K’gari is summarised from Olga Miller’s Fraser Island Legends (Jacaranda Press) with kind permission from Glen Miller.
The epigraph is from Zoos Humains: Entre Mythe et Réalité (ACHAC) by Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Gilles Boëtsch, Éric Deroo and Sandrine Lemaire. It is quoted with permission.
This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts, and the Australian Government Research Training Program.
