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Author Moriarty, John.

Title Saltwater fella / John Moriarty with Evan McHugh
Published Ringwood, Vic. : Viking ; Harmondsworth : Penguin, 2000

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 W'PONDS  746.092 Moriar Mor/Sfe  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 23 cm
regular print
Contents Prologue: Who I am -- 1. Taken -- 2. Childhood in Mulgoa -- 3. A mountain interlude -- 4. My first dressing gown -- 5. Boy to man -- 6. Widening horizons -- 7. Forging ahead -- 8. Making connections -- 9. Ros -- 10. Business and pleasure -- 11. Soaring
Summary John Moriarty, the man who put the beautiful dot-painted Qantas Wunala Dreaming jet in the sky, was taken from his mother at the age of four. He was shipped without his family's knowledge to a children's home, entering a harsh world of orphanages and poverty. This is the story of how he rose to fame against incredible odds
Analysis Aborigines
Autobiography
Biography & autobiography (Australia ) Australian Aboriginal studies ALL AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS MATERIAL
Design
John Moriarty
Notes Includes index
Donated by Prof. Lowitja O'Donoghue
Subject Moriarty, John, 1938-2007.
Moriarty, John.
Balarinji (Firm)
Balarinji Design
Balarinji Designs
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
Art, Aboriginal Australian.
Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography.
Textile designers -- Australia -- Biography.
SUBJECT Australia -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Author McHugh, Evan.
LC no. 00343287
ISBN 0670878650