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A Straight-Out Man: Pastor F.W. Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines
A StraightOut Man Pastor FW Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines Author:Barbara Henson Central Australia and its oldest mission, Hermannsburg, have long been an arena for the encounter between Australia's indigenous people and the European newcomers. The life of Hermannsburg's longest serving superintendent, F. W. Albrecht, vividly details much of that encounter, beginning in the 1920s when Aborigines were thought to be a dying ra... more »ce. Aboriginal recollections punctuate the story, providing a rare glimpse into Aboriginal thoughts and feelings for Albrecht himself and the events surrounding them. And at the centre is a man of great personal commitment, struggling with the painful unlearning of his own cultural certainties.« less