Marranbala Country
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Carved from ochre sandstone and alive with ancestral memory, Marranbala Country presents an intimate portrait of a remote and sacred Australian landscape through the combined vision of photographer Simon Normand and Maureen Maranguiu Thompson, a traditional custodian of the land. The book chronicles the breathtaking terrain of the Marranbala region — its ancient rock art, waterways, and sun-scorched escarpments — through stunning photography paired with the deep cultural knowledge of its Indigenous narrator, grounding every image in living tradition and Dreamtime significance. At its heart, this is a work of cross-cultural collaboration, one that honours the sovereignty of Indigenous storytelling while making it accessible to a wider audience. Normand's lens captures the land not merely as landscape but as a living archive of identity, law, and belonging, while Thompson's voice instructs the reader in ways of seeing that Western eyes rarely encounter. Together, they produce a document that is as much spiritual cartography as it is photographic art — leaving the reader to wonder how much of Country remains untold.
Author: Simon Normand With Maureen Maranguiu Thompson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Carved from ochre sandstone and alive with ancestral memory, Marranbala Country presents an intimate portrait of a remote and sacred Australian landscape through the combined vision of photographer Simon Normand and Maureen Maranguiu Thompson, a traditional custodian of the land. The book chronicles the breathtaking terrain of the Marranbala region — its ancient rock art, waterways, and sun-scorched escarpments — through stunning photography paired with the deep cultural knowledge of its Indigenous narrator, grounding every image in living tradition and Dreamtime significance. At its heart, this is a work of cross-cultural collaboration, one that honours the sovereignty of Indigenous storytelling while making it accessible to a wider audience. Normand's lens captures the land not merely as landscape but as a living archive of identity, law, and belonging, while Thompson's voice instructs the reader in ways of seeing that Western eyes rarely encounter. Together, they produce a document that is as much spiritual cartography as it is photographic art — leaving the reader to wonder how much of Country remains untold.