Warra Warra Wai

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Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People

Publisher: Scribner Australia (September 4, 2024)

Length: 352 pages

ISBN 13: 9781761424021

We know the story of Cook’s journey up the east coast of Australia from diaries, journals and letters kept by those on board. Now, for the first time, this is the other side of the story, told by the ancestors of those who stood on the shore watching the Endeavour sail by.  How did they understand their world and what sense did they make of this strange vision? And what was the impact of these first encounters with Europeans? The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed.