The Track To Bralgu
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: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of Australian literary fiction, The Track to Bralgu chronicles the spiritual and physical journey of Aboriginal Australians through a series of interconnected stories steeped in the mythology and sacred traditions of the Yolngu people. B. Wongar — the pen name of Serbian-born author Sreten Bozic — presents a deeply mournful yet lyrical vision of a culture under siege, as colonization, uranium mining, and forced displacement fracture the ancient bond between the people and their land. The narrative voice carries a dreamlike, elegiac tone, weaving together the world of the living and the ancestral realm of Bralgu, the island of the dead in Yolngu cosmology. Each story illustrates the devastating human cost of industrial and governmental intrusion into sacred Aboriginal territories, rendering political critique through the language of myth and sorrow. Widely regarded as a landmark of Australian protest literature, the collection stands as a powerful testament to Indigenous resilience and the enduring call of the ancestral world.
Author: B. Wongar
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A haunting work of Australian literary fiction, The Track to Bralgu chronicles the spiritual and physical journey of Aboriginal Australians through a series of interconnected stories steeped in the mythology and sacred traditions of the Yolngu people. B. Wongar — the pen name of Serbian-born author Sreten Bozic — presents a deeply mournful yet lyrical vision of a culture under siege, as colonization, uranium mining, and forced displacement fracture the ancient bond between the people and their land. The narrative voice carries a dreamlike, elegiac tone, weaving together the world of the living and the ancestral realm of Bralgu, the island of the dead in Yolngu cosmology. Each story illustrates the devastating human cost of industrial and governmental intrusion into sacred Aboriginal territories, rendering political critique through the language of myth and sorrow. Widely regarded as a landmark of Australian protest literature, the collection stands as a powerful testament to Indigenous resilience and the enduring call of the ancestral world.