Author(s): Gil Jones; Grace Karskens (Foreword by)

Australian

The Bulga is the rugged valley etched sandstone plateau between Cumberland Basin of western Sydney and the Hunter Valley. Ten times the extent of the Blue Mountains Plateau, it is even richer in the cultural signature of its First People - the Darginyung. This book spans the culture and cultural signature, in place names and rock art, of the Darginyung: and the invasion of their country by boat people from half a world away - pastoral nomads, surveyors, settlers and missionaries