Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780060925802
ISBN: 0060925809
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 252
Publication Date: April 12, 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: April 12, 1995
Sales Rank: 158522
Studio: HarperCollins

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
With beautiful photographs and vivid narrative, this spectacular book transports readers into the minds, hearts, and dreams of the Australian Aborigines, who maintain the oldest culture in the world.




Rating: - ,0reamy
One of the best i've read recently, so much so I was almost sorry to reach the end. Arden spins the non-fiction tale of his journey through the Australian outback to hear Aborigines' tales of mystery, in the stories of their ancestore; and tragedy, in the segregation and near-annihilation suffered by them, although the tale also had laughs. A trip!

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Rating: - How to know a dream
This is a very helpful and earnest book if you want to know about aboriginal life and thought in Australia now. By talking with several men and women in many different places the author gives us simple and sensitive reports accompanied by photographies. This means he tells us what he was told and how and when, as well as about his feelings and doubts, the relationships he did or didn't establish with the people, what he learned and what he couldn't learn but tried to.

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Rating: - In Their Own Words
Dreamkeepers is subtitled, "A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia." That's important to emphasize because the spirit-journey is the author's, more so than the Aboriginals.

Harvey Arden is a former editor-writer for National Geographic and co-author of Wisdomkeepers, a book on Native Americans in the United States. In the prologue, he writes,

"I had hoped to garner a few stories from the Dreamtime on this `spirit-journey' of mine into Aboriginal Australia.'" (2)
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Rating: - An Ancient Window
There is so much mystery surrounding the Australian Aborigines and white Australians seem to want to keep it that way, to sweep these people under the rug. This book doesn't reveal all but provides a window into the rich and ancient Aborigine culture. Best of all, the window is opened by the people themselves. They are not beautiful by western standards, but they radiate goodness and truth and it makes them beautiful. I offer much gratitude to Arden for searching them out and respectfully writing ... Read More

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Rating: - The Persistence of Truth
Like any indigenous people who have encountered European cultures, profound disorientation has taken place amoung the Australian Aborigals. This book demonstrates the subtle continuance of their personal connection to something far greater than anyone can conceive. A centeredness, a natural power wiser than the intellect persists, is healing, gaining ground.

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