Eltham Bookshop, witht he support of Nillumbik Reconciliation Group, warmly invite you to celebrate a very special evening with Darren Rix and Craig Cormick, authors of Warra Warra Wai.

‘Warra Warra Wai’ was the expression called to Cook and his crew when they tried to make landfall in Botany Bay. It has long been interpreted as ‘Go away’,
but is perhaps more accurately translated as ‘You are all dead spirits’.

Both 250 years late and extremely timely, Warra Warra Wai is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770.

The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed.

The price of entry includes one copy of the book, Darren Rix’s music and an insightful conversation)