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Eltham Bookshop and Simon and Schuster warmly invite you to celebrate a very special evening with Darren Rix and Craig Cormick, authors ofWarra Warra Wai
‘Warra Warra Wai’ was the expression called to Cook and his crew when they tried to make landfall in Botany Bay. It has long been interpreted as ‘Go away’, but is perhaps more accurately translated as ‘You are all dead spirits’.
Both 250 years late and extremely timely, Warra Warra Wai is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770.
The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed.
Date: 2 October 2024
Time: 6.30pm to 8.00pm Venue: Edendale Community Farm, Gastons Lane, Eltham
Entry: $50.00
(includes one copy of the book, Darren
Rix’s music and an insightful conversation)
Darren Rix (a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man, radio reporter and Archie Roach’s nephew) and his co-author Craig Cormick travelled to all the places on the east coast that were renamed by Cook, and listened to people’s stories. With their permission, these stories have been woven together with the European accounts and placed in their deeper context.
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Edendale Community and Environment Farm, 30 Gastons Rd,Melbourne,VIC,Australia, Eltham
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