Blue Mountains Dreaming: The Aboriginal Heritage. by Stockton, Eugene (editor) - 1996.

New South Wales:: Three Sisters, 1996.. 2nd Printing.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; Very Good condition.. 9.5 inches tall by 7 inches wide . Description: A few black and white illustrations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Within 30 years of the first British settlement of New South Wales, the number of Aboriginal people in the adjoining Blue Mountains had been considerably reduced by contact with the Europeans. Of the generation of new Mountains dwellers who followed, few appreciated the Aboriginal heritage of the region, even though evidence of their presence was known from the Nepean River and the adjacent escarpment. Increasingly widespread discoveries of art sites, occupation shelters, stone tools, axe-grinding grooves and stone arrangements, research into the journal and early writings of European explorers and settlers and the compilation of oral histories, are providing a rich, if incomplete, account of the former existence of the Gundungurra and the Dharug in the Blue Mountains. This book gathers together the current information about Blue Mountains Aborigines. A fascinating account of lifestyles, languages, legends and European contact.'' The last two chapters are Gundungurra - English and Dharug - English dictionaries.