Uluru, Australia's Aboriginal heart
By: by Caroline Arnold ; photographs by Arthur Arnold
Contributors: Arnold, Arthur, ill
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780618181810
Subjects: Religion; Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology); Juvenile literature; Antiquities; Sacred space; Aboriginal Australians
Description: Describes Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, in Australia's Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, its plant and animal life, and the country's Aboriginal people for whom the site is sacred.
Notes: includes index.
Table of contents: title: A giant red rock; title: Australia's first people; title: Tjukurpa; title: A sacred place; title: Kuniya the python; title: The marsupial mole; title: Willy wagtail woman; title: The blue-tongued lizard man; title: The geology of Ulur̲u and Katatjut̲a; title: Ulur̲u; title: Kata Tjut̲a; title: A desert landscape; title: The seasons; title: Water; title: Desert wildlife; title: The changing landscape; title: Living in the desert; title: Taking care of the land; title: Australia's red center; title: A place of universal importance.