Dream Time

A book that tells about the magical world of Aboriginal Dreamtime and sharing the world's oldest living culture.

Dazzling, innovative, and courageous, Dream Time plunges the reader deep into the sensibility of the '60's in a wonderful display of cultural archaeology. Far from being an unqualified celebration of the era, it is a deliberate experiment, combining the genres of memoir, novel, and cultural history in order to convey the complex impact of the late '60's counterculture. When Dream Time was published in 1988, it won Geoffrey O'Brien a Whiting Writer's Award. Previous books on the subject had focused primarily on media icons such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon, or Andy Warhol; Dream Time shifts the focus to the ways in which the psychedelic and countercultural currents of the era played themselves out in younger and more marginal lives. If you lived it, but never really came to grips with it; if you missed it but wish you hadn't--this is the book that tells it, at last, like it really was.

Children may not understand where their dreams come from, especially when they experience terrifying nightmares that stop them being able to sleep and frighten them when they are awake. Accessible and fun to use, this guide gives a step-by-step account of how to understand and interpret children's dreams.

Dream Time Magic and Other Australian Legends A Quick Read Book By The Abbotts The Dream Time of the Australian Aboriginal people is a fascinating place full of lively myths, great stories and amusing tales! In this new book by The Abbotts, we enter this mystical world and meet a variety of lovable people from a small boy, Wallunga to a modern outback nurse and hear their stories. Also we discover the amazing tales and myths created by the convicts, settlers and unusual visitors to this Southern continent over the millennia. A book of interest for the whole family! In 14 pt for easy reading and fully illustrated. A Beacon of Light Book.

"I'm on to a filthy game. A game worse than murder". His cousin's baffling message sends Jock Corless speeding hundreds of miles north to Ungimillia, the Dream time Land. There, he finds murder and intrigue in a land where illusion and reality seem to merge, and even Inspector "Digger" Haig can't quite read the signs.

People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging. It is about a slow shift in national consciousness: the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many of us relate to this continent and its enduring, dynamic human history. John Mulvaney Book Award: Winner Ernest Scott Prize: Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Winner - Book of the Year NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Winner - Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Highly Commended Queensland Literary Awards: Shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Shortlisted Educational Publishing Awards: Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards: Longlisted CHASS Book Prize: Longlisted ‘What a revelatory work! If you wish to hear the voice of our continent's history before the written word, Deep Time Dreaming is a must read. The freshest, most important book about our past in years.’ —Tim Flannery ‘Once every generation a book comes along that marks the emergence of a powerful new literary voice and shifts our understanding of the nation’s past. Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming is one such book. Deeply researched, creatively conceived and beautifully written, it charts the expansion of archaeological knowledge in Australia for the first time. No other book has managed to convey the mystery and intricacy of Indigenous antiquity in quite the same way. Read it: it will change the way you see Australian history.’ —Mark McKenna, historian ‘Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia is a remarkable book, and one destined, I believe, to become a modern classic of Australian history writing. Written in vivid, evocative prose, this book will grip both the expert and the general reader alike.’ —Iain McCalman, author of The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

Kitty and her adoptive sister Jojo are annoyed. Her mother has a new boyfriend, and then her strange aunt Missy, who was missing for years, suddenly shows up. At the same time, a recurring nightmare haunts all children in Lantyan. What luck that Kitty and Jojo have just received a message from Naytnal. The star of the empires, as Naytnal is also called, needs Kitty's and Jojo's help. Kitty and Jojo have a difficult mission ahead of them as the gloomy threatens to haunt the star of the empires. The nightmares come here too, and the evil spreads quickly. Kitty and Jojo are faced with a great mystery. Only the secret, legendary dream time guards can help. But whether they actually exist is the big question ... Fantasy literature from the pen of Elias J. Connor. Immerse yourself in the world of Naytnal. This is the second novel in the Naytnal series.