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Reviews of Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland
Paul Newbury Bonzer On-line Monthly, December 2011
The authors present their homeland in a spectacular sequence of full-page photographs ranging from baked landscapes, sandstone gorges, meandering rivers that run all year round and billabongs with floating lily pads and lotus flower.
Through these wonderful images and the peoples’ dialogue, readers are led into the heart of Mak Mak Country that is comprised of people, ancestors, animals, plants, wet and dry seasons and intimate relationships that tie them together. Linda Ford says, ‘Country gives us our identity. We are created, live, die and exist in the spirit of all the natural elements. Our lives are formed in knowing our country …’