An incredible work of preserving oral history, Two Sisters tells the survival story of Ngarta Jinny Bent and Jukuna Mona Chuguna, two Martu women who spent decades living a traditional nomadic life in the Western Desert long after most Aboriginal communities had been displaced.

Through conversations recorded by anthropologist Pat Lowe and writer Eirlys Richards, the sisters recount childhood, kinship, Country, family separation and the profound upheavals brought by colonisation, pastoral expansion and the nuclear testing era. The book preserves knowledge systems, ecological understanding and everyday practices with remarkable clarity, documenting a world ordered by Country rather than the colonial archive. Food gathering, ceremony, travel routes, family obligations and memory become part of a living history, allowing the sisters to speak in voices that are direct, funny, devastating and unsentimental.

As both memoir and historical record, Two Sisters has become an important contribution to Australian literature and Indigenous history. It offers an intimate account of survival while exposing the violence of the nation's official narratives. Essential reading for anyone interested in oral history, First Nations storytelling and the preservation of cultural memory.

Later paperback edition. Clean, bright copy with only light shelf wear to the covers. Binding is tight, pages clean throughout, and photographic plates remain crisp. A very good reading copy.