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    Stone Axe Of Burkamukk
    Stone Axe Of Burkamukk
    Stone Axe Of Burkamukk
    Audiobook6 hours

    Stone Axe Of Burkamukk

    Written by Mary Grant Bruce

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria which it is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now there are no tribal people living, though their descendants are still around. This book contains 13 stories of the Gunaikurnai people, as told by their elders to the author. From the preface:
    Year by year the old black tribes are dying out, and many of their legends and beliefs are dying with them. These legends deal with the world as the blacks knew it; with the Bush animals and birds; the powers of storm, flood, fire, thunder, and magic, and the beings who they thought controlled these powers; with the sun, moon and stars; and with the life and death of men and women.
    The folktales of a people are the story of its soul, and it would be a pity if the native races of our country were to vanish altogether before we had collected enough of their legends to let their successors know what manner of people lived in Australia for thousands of years before the white man came.     (From the Preface by Mary Grant Bruce with a little help from annise)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Mary Grant Bruce

    Mary Grant Bruce (christened Minnie) was born in 1878 and enjoyed writing from an early age. Much of her childhood was spent on her grandparent’s property, which set the scene for the Billabong books. Her first novel, A LITTLE BUSH MAID, was published in 1910 and based on her already popular children’s serial of the same name, published weekly in the Age. It was an instant success and thirteen more Billabong books followed.Mary Grant Bruce died in 1958.

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