{"product_id":"two-sisters-a-true-story-by-ngarta-jinny-bent-jukuna-mona-chuguna-pat-lowe-amp-eirlys-richards","title":"'Two Sisters: A True Story' by Ngarta Jinny Bent, Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe \u0026amp; Eirlys Richards","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"661\"\u003eAn incredible work of preserving oral history, \u003cem data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"174\"\u003eTwo Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"661\"\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1139\" data-end=\"1516\"\u003eAs both memoir and historical record, \u003cem data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1190\"\u003eTwo Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1734\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLater 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45810695766099,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-12T115333.545.png?v=1783821271","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/two-sisters-a-true-story-by-ngarta-jinny-bent-jukuna-mona-chuguna-pat-lowe-amp-eirlys-richards","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}