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Terra Nullius a journey through no one's land

"Long before the word 'genocide' was coined, the British invasion of Australia had annihilated approximately nine-tenths of the continent's original population of Aborigines. The creation of white Australia depended upon the legal fiction of 'terra nullius'--no man's land--the claim that Aboriginal lands were inhabited by people who would soon die out and who could be helped on the way to extinction if they lingered. Sven Lindqvist ... travels 7,000 miles through Australia in search of places where belief in the rights of the white man and the annihilation of the 'lower races' were put into practice."--Jacket.

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  • "Terra Nullius is a journey across Australia's desert and into its shocking past. This lyrical book describes its landscape, flora and fauna and geology, tells the history of the country and reveals the shocking treatment of its Aboriginal peoples."
  • ""Long before the word 'genocide' was coined, the British invasion of Australia had annihilated approximately nine-tenths of the continent's original population of Aborigines. The creation of white Australia depended upon the legal fiction of 'terra nullius'--no man's land--the claim that Aboriginal lands were inhabited by people who would soon die out and who could be helped on the way to extinction if they lingered. Sven Lindqvist ... travels 7,000 miles through Australia in search of places where belief in the rights of the white man and the annihilation of the 'lower races' were put into practice."--Jacket."@en
  • "This book contains a beautifully described journey across Australia's desert, and into its shocking past. Lindqvist travels through the south of the country, lyrically describing its landscape, flora and fauna and geology, while also telling the history of the country, and revealing the shocking treatment of its Aboriginal peoples. He catalogues some truly shocking abuses, such as the rounding up of Aborigine women for transportation to the chillingly named "Isle of the Dead" for inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment; and the extensive forced separation of 'halfblood' children from their families to squalid, prison-like camps. Stretching from the formation of the Australian continent 600 million years ago to the 2002 hunger strikes in the Woomera detention camp, "Terra Nullius" leaves us with a strong sense of Australia as a piece of earth, steeped in geological and tragic human history. Includes travels in Western Australia, the Kimberley, Perth and Pinjarra."@en
  • ""Long before the word 'genocide' was coined, the British invasion of Australia had annihilated approximately nine-tenths of the continent's original population of Aborigines. The creation of white Australia depended upon the legal fiction of 'terra nullius'--no man's land--the claim that Aboriginal lands were inhabited by people who would soon die out and who could be helped on the way to extinction if they lingered. Sven Lindqvist...travels 7,000 miles through Australia in search of places where belief in the rights of the white man and the annihilation of the 'lower races' were put into practice." -- dust jacket."

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  • "Terra nullius"
  • "Terra nullius : en resa genom ingens land"@sv
  • "Terra nullius : en resa genom ingens land"
  • "Terra Nullius a journey through no one's land"@en
  • "Terra nullius : a journey through no one's land"
  • "Terra nullius : a journey through no one's land"@en
  • "Terra Nullius : a journey through no one's land"@en
  • "Terra Nullius : a journey through no one's land"
  • "Terra nullius : matkalla ei-kenenkään-maassa"
  • "Terra nullius : matkalla ei-kenenkään-maassa"@fi
  • "Terra nullius en resa genom ingens land"
  • "Terra nullius a journey through no one's land"@en

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