Reviews of Aboriginal Darwin: A guide to exploring important sites of the past and present

Excerpt from reviews of Aboriginal Darwin
Genevieve Swart, Sun Herald, March 18, 2007
Bauman has produced an insightful and sensitive guide to Aboriginal culture, with a section on responsible travel including rules on visiting communities. For visitors wanting to open the door to indigenous culture in the Top End's tropical city, this book is a key.

Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian, February 2007
Aboriginal Darwin...goes some way to uncovering the indigenous experience of recent decades. It is a poignant, disturbing book, much concerned with absences and erasures of evidence.

Australian Historical Studies, 39, 2008
With explanatory narratives about the influence of past events and policies on the present, and an Indigenous perspective on the spaces and places in and around Darwin, this guide is an excellent example of the ways that tourist literature can make an intervention into popular understandings of local and national histories.

William B Day, Anthropological Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2, July 200
With the knowledge of cultural protocols and local history provided by Aboriginal Darwin and the courage it demonstrates to step beyond the limitations of an introductory guided tour, intending visitors to Darwin can prepare themselves well for what could be a memorable encounter with Indigenous Australia.

James Jeffrey, The Australian, 19 July 2007
Aboriginal Darwin acts as both a guidebook that casts a local eye across the town and a social history of the Larrakia people and their eventual neighbours. There are stories of resistance as well as co-operation: the Larrakia, after all, were sometimes quite happy to join forces with white settlers to drive away rival tribes. Issues such as problems among itinerant ‘long grassers’ and a smorgasbord of batty race-based government policies are dealt with in a matter-of-fact way, but the overall feel is upbeat.