Maralinga's long shadow, Yvonne's story, Christobel Mattingley
Type
Label
Maralinga's long shadow, Yvonne's story, Christobel Mattingley
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes index and bibliographical references
Illustrations
mapsillustrationsportraits
Index
index present
Intended audience
Adolescent
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Maralinga's long shadow
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Christobel Mattingley
Sub title
Yvonne's story
Summary
"Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back." Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963 and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community... This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder
Target audience
adolescent
Subject
- Biographies
- Atomic bomb -- South Australia -- Maralinga -- Testing -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Maralinga Region -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Maralinga (S.A.) -- History -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Edwards, Yvonne -- Juvenile literature
- Large type books
- Pitjantjatjara (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Maralinga -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Content
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject7
- Biographies
- Atomic bomb -- South Australia -- Maralinga -- Testing -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Maralinga Region -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Maralinga (S.A.) -- History -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Edwards, Yvonne -- Juvenile literature
- Large type books
- Pitjantjatjara (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Maralinga -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Content2
- Author1