Living on a station by the Narran River, Katie Langloh Parker wrote down the stories told by the Noongahburrah people around her: how Dinewan the emu lost her wings, how the kangaroo rat and the crane kept fire, Bahloo the moon, the Seven Sisters, the eaglehawk and many more. Andrew Lang supplied the introduction.
One of the earliest collections of Aboriginal tales in English, with the colonial vocabulary of 1896. Download the free EPUB.