Title: The Last Of The Nomads
Author: W J Peasley
Description: The story of Warri and Yatungka is the subject of a documentary film, Footprints in the Sand.
Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a trobal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years.
The Last of the Nomads tells of an extraordinary story of their rescue and how they survived alone for the previous thirty years in the unrelenting western Gibson Desert region of Australia makes absorbing reading.
Cover: Quality soft cover
Pages: 175
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 20cm x 13cm