{"product_id":"warra-warra-wai","title":"Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Warra Warra Wai, Darren Rix and Craig Cormick take the reader on a captivating historical journey that parallels that taken by James Cook’s Endeavour along 4000 kilometres of the eastern coast of Australia. Across 19 chapters that correspond with different places and landmarks sighted by Cook, the authors present a very different story of 1770s Australia. Through creatively weaving First Nations memories and oral histories and archival research in and around a narrative that is overwhelmingly told from a European perspective, they present a compelling, provocative and unsettling history of the beginnings of settler-colonial Australia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors centre First Nations people’s agency through the question they pose to the communities they interview: what stories do you want to share, or think that non-Indigenous Australians should hear, about how you discovered Cook and the Endeavour? The result is a book that tilts Australian history on its head, courageously challenging existing narratives and offering alternative perspectives of an encounter that transformed thousands of years of doing and being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWarra Warra Wai is a triumph of listening and an innovation in storytelling that demonstrates just how fresh and surprising Australian history can be. Heartfelt and genuine, it delivers its analysis of colonisation and dispossession in a manner that is both chilling and poignant, and that is dedicated to collaborative truth-telling. It is an incredibly moving and unforgettable historical and cultural road trip of a book that takes us to the stunningly beautiful sites renamed by Cook, from Munda Bubal\/Tolywiarar (Point Hicks) in the south to Tuined (Possession Island) in the north.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Darren Rix\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761424021\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner Australia\u003cbr\u003eDate Published: Sept 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARPER ENTERTAINMENT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52047044870418,"sku":"015825","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/9001\/9602\/files\/WarraWarraWai.jpg?v=1772500178","url":"https:\/\/store.anmm.gov.au\/products\/warra-warra-wai","provider":"Sea Museum Retail Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}