Oodgeroo: Bloodline to Country
- ISBN-10
- 0908156871
- ISBN-13
- 9780908156870
- Category
- Australian drama
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- Sam Watson
Description
Weaves Oodgeroo's personal and cultural life with her time on the Tunisian tarmac, where she pleaded with the hijackers on behalf of the passengers, to tell the previously untold story of the tensions that tore at the fabric of one of Australia's most prominent families.
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