Book description
Jimmy Pike is one of Australia's most famous Aboriginal artists,
represented in collections in all major Australian public galleries and
museums. He grew up in the Great Sandy Desert during the 1940s and
1950s. This is his story as told by his lifetime partner, English-born
Pat Lowe, who spent three years in the desert with him, and many more
years listening to his stories. This remarkable and intimate account of
what was a traditional Walmajarri boyhood, one of the last of its kind,
opens your eyes to a completely different culture and way of
experiencing the world. The startling fact is that after 60,000 years
following a nomadic, hunter-gatherer way of life, the exodus of the
Walmajarri people from the desert occurred in only one or two
generations after white settlement.
