"Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land.""
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Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Charles Chatwin (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was a British novelist and travel writer.
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