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reviewed Unbranded by Herb Wharton (UQP Black Australian writers)

Herb Wharton: Unbranded (1992, University of Queensland Press, Distributed by International Specialized Services) 3 stars

Simple but evocative

3 stars

Fictionalised autobiography of an Aboriginal stockman in the pastoral outback. Despite simple prose, it absorbingly evokes that long gone world with its tall stories, colourful characters (so much grog!) and damages of colonisation.

Reading time 13 days, 19 pages/day