The First Walkabout

{{Short description|Book by Norman Tindale and Harold Arthur Lindsay}} {{Infobox book| | name = The First Walkabout | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:The_First_Walkabout.png | caption = | author = [[Norman Tindale|Norman B. Tindale]] & [[H. A. Lindsay|Harold Arthur Lindsay]] | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = Children's fiction | publisher = [[Longman|Longmans Green]] | release_date = 1954 | media_type = Print | pages = 129pp | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}

'''''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 Australians|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."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205730627 "Christmas Books for Juniors" by D. D., ''The Brisbane Telegraph'', 18 December 1954, p18]</ref>

==See also== * [[1954 in Australian literature]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

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