Barbara Ker Wilson

In this Chinese version of the Cinderella tale, Yeh Hsien uses magic fishbones to dress herself in finery for the Cave Festival, where she loses a slipper in fleeing from her wicked stepmother.

Contrasts the life of a modern Australian teenager with the activities and aspirations of her ancestors who left England to seek gold and prosperity in the nineteenth-century Australian frontier.

A selection of Aboriginal legends of the Dreamtime collected by a white woman who lived among the Aborigines for more than forty years.