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The edge of memory : ancient stories, oral tradition and the post-glacial world  Cover Image Book Book

The edge of memory : ancient stories, oral tradition and the post-glacial world / Patrick Nunn.

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  • ISBN: 9781472943286 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
Subject: Floods > Folklore.
Environmental sciences > Folklore.
Science > Folklore.
Ocean > Folklore.
Storytelling > History.
Oral tradition.
Oral history.
Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples > Social life and customs.
Tales > Australia > History and criticism.
Tales > History and criticism.
Genre: Legends.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch 398.2099406 Nunn 31681010154052 NONFIC Available -

Patrick Nunn received his PhD from the University of London before spending 25 years teaching and researching at the international University of the South Pacific, based in Fiji, where he was appointed Professor of Oceanic Geoscience in 1996. He moved to Australia in 2010 to work at the University of New England before being appointed in March 2014 to a research professorship in the Sustainability Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Patrick has more than 230 peer-reviewed publications to his credit, including several books, including Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press), which was named by the American Library Association as one of the Best of the Best from the University Presses in 2009.


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