The First Voyage

Author: Allan Baillie

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Price : $17.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780143307679
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Imprint : Puffin
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Weight (g) : 0.17
Publication date : 01 November 2013
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
Produced in : Australia
RRP : 17.99
Availability date : 01 February 2014
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Author : Allan Baillie
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Dewey classification : 823.4
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Description

An adventure story set in our very distant past, 30,000 years ago, when the first tribes from Timor braved the ocean on primitive rafts to travel into the unknown, and reached the land mass of what is now Australia.

Author description

Allan Baillie is one of Australia's most successful writers for children. His novels include Little Brother, The China Coin, Saving Abbie, Treasure Hunters , A Taste of Cockroach (a collection of short stories) Castles( a picture book for young children), and Krakatoa Lighthouse.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.