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Author Fatchen, Max.

Title The spirit wind / Max Fatchen ; illustrated by Trevor Stubley
Published London : Methuen, 1973

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Fat/Tsw  AVAILABLE
 MELB SPCBC  819 Fatche Max/Swi  LIB USE ONLY
 MELB SPCBC  819 Fatche Max/Swi  LIB USE ONLY
Description 156 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Series Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books. ANL
Summary Young Jarl Hansen, goaded by the mean and vicious Mate, Heinrich the Bull, jumps ship in South Australia and becomes a hunted person until the spirit wind, invoked by Nunganee, the Aboriginal, comes to his aid
Notes Also published, Sydney: Hicks Smith, 1973
Audience For children
Notes Children's Book of the Year Award, 1974 highly commended
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Legends -- Juvenile fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legends -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
Fugitives from justice -- Juvenile fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile fiction.
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
Sea adventures
River life -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
South Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100617 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction.
Sea stories.
Fiction.
Legends.
Author Stubley, Trevor.
LC no. 74155482
ISBN 041656450X
0416769403