That Deadman Dance
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
That Deadman Dance
Buy Now for $38.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Humphrey Bower
-
By:
-
Kim Scott
About this listen
Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance - those stiff movements, those jerking limbs – as if he’d learned it from their very own selves; but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together…
Told through the eyes of black and white, young and old, That Deadman Dance is a story about a fledgling Western Australian community in the early 1800s known as the ‘friendly frontier’. Poetic, warm-hearted and bold, it is a story which shows that first contact did not have to lead to war. It is a story for our times.
©2010 Kim Scott (P)2011 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdWhat listeners say about That Deadman Dance
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Kindle Customer
- 27-03-2019
Love this book so much.
If you live in Australia, you should read this book. It is so beautifully written, the audio was fantastic. I laughed and cried at different times in this book. I will keep coming back to read it over and over again and I will be telling everyone I know to read it.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Brittany
- 15-01-2016
A beautiful story.
I took a while too get into this story, but it improved. It was a heart breaking and informative and had a great reverence for the Indigenous Australian people.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Fitzy-Mitzy
- 20-07-2019
Great to listen to!
I don’t know if I’d enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed listening to this. Great insight into colonisation and the aboriginal culture at the time. Loved the narration by Humphrey Bower.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Angie A
- 15-08-2020
Loved every minute
Absolutely loved every minute. History I did not know in an adventurous novel, well told.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- barrwood
- 13-07-2022
A Wonderful Australian Story
Wonderfully broad picture of so called 'peaceful integration' in contrast to the New South Wales and Western Victorian debacles. No less harrowing in the consideration of the selfish and greedy attitude of the 'colonisers'.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Spencer
- 24-07-2019
A great reflection on Australian history
A great book. Full credits for any awards given. Beautiful prose. Week read! Australians will benefit by reading.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 20-02-2023
Fantastic story telling
Amazing cross cultural story line, made real and evocative through the rich depiction of a time and place in colonising Australia.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 17-07-2023
Deadly!
Truly a journey I relished. A dance of the imagination into a dreaming that was most enjoyable.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 12-03-2018
Hard to say how important this book is for me
Like Scott I'm a descendant of both the South Coast Nyungar and the white settlers who wound up there. I don't have much language, or kaartdijin, and know little about life during those early times of interaction. This book did something very important for me. It helped me make sense of my parts, and their tensions. It helped me to understand that its okay for the Wadjela and the Nyungar in me to be friends, and more than that - for them to meld. That dance of Bobby Wabalanginy - a very Nyungar thing, not in spite of wearing a Wadjela's coat but because of it.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Kelly-ann Oosterbeek
- 26-07-2020
One for every Australian
This is a must read for every Australian!
So seldom do we get to hear the story of the Australian colonization experience told from the perspective of its original inhabitants that it’s would be a terrible shame not to grab the opportunity when it finally presents self.
Wonderfully written and fabulously read, the story is surprising in that not all experiences were particularly negative and not all Characters in the story were victims - some mastered the situation thrust upon them and emerged hero’s!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!