Snake dancing by Roberta Sykes (Second Hand Book)

Second Hand Book

Snake Dancing is the second volume of Roberta Sykes’ three volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming. It chronicles Roberta’s increasing politicisation and involvement in the Black movement to the time of her invitation from Harvard to take up postgraduate study in the United States.

Struggling to overcome the effects of her ordeals in Snake Cradle, Roberta Sykes gradually moves into the national spotlight as a writer and as First Secretary of the Aboriginal Embassy set up in a tent on the lawns of Parliament House. She details the dangerous, demanding and sometimes lonely life of an itinerant activist, and brings a human perspective to events that were often headline news around the world.

Snake Dancing is essential reading for those wishing to understand the complex nature of interaction between the races in Australia’s recent history. The first volume of her autobiography, Snake Cradle, won the 1997 Age Book of the Year and the 1998 Nitta Kibble awards, and those who were moved by it will continue to be engrossed by Roberta Sykes’ remarkable life.

Specifications:
Condition: Fair, ex library. Has spine label and library stamps on the title page and back of the title page and also along the page edges
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Year: 1998
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 1864488379

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Second Hand Book

Snake Dancing is the second volume of Roberta Sykes’ three volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming. It chronicles Roberta’s increasing politicisation and involvement in the Black movement to the time of her invitation from Harvard to take up postgraduate study in the United States.

Struggling to overcome the effects of her ordeals in Snake Cradle, Roberta Sykes gradually moves into the national spotlight as a writer and as First Secretary of the Aboriginal Embassy set up in a tent on the lawns of Parliament House. She details the dangerous, demanding and sometimes lonely life of an itinerant activist, and brings a human perspective to events that were often headline news around the world.

Snake Dancing is essential reading for those wishing to understand the complex nature of interaction between the races in Australia’s recent history. The first volume of her autobiography, Snake Cradle, won the 1997 Age Book of the Year and the 1998 Nitta Kibble awards, and those who were moved by it will continue to be engrossed by Roberta Sykes’ remarkable life.

Specifications:
Condition: Fair, ex library. Has spine label and library stamps on the title page and back of the title page and also along the page edges
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Year: 1998
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 1864488379

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Weight .510 kg
Dimensions 23 × 15.2 × 2.2 cm

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