The First Walkabout

The First Walkabout

Author	Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre	Children's fiction
Publisher	Longmans Green
Publication date	1954
Media type	Print
Pages	129pp

The First Walkabout is an Australian children's novel first published in 1954. It tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a group that arrived in Australia before the ancestors of the present-day Aboriginal peoples.

Critical reception

While covering a selection of possible Christmas book gifts for children in The Brisbane Telegraph in 1954, a reviewer noted: "Mr. Tindale is ethnologist at the South Australian museum, and Mr. Lindsay is the well-known authority on the Australian bushland. They have collaborated to produce an authentic and entertaining story of Australia some ten or twelve thousand years ago."

See also

• 1954 in Australian literature