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Travel, Indigeneity, Ecocriticism, and the Sacred in Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines and Julia Martin’s A Millimetre of Dust

Gail FinchamUniversity of Cape Town, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 23-38 | Published online: 24 Mar 2023

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