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Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. Many of the images and artefacts in this fascinating account are published here for the first time, and the book contains a biographical listing of more than 1200 cameleers.

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Philip Jones is an author and historian based at the South Australian Museum, where he undertakes research on Aboriginal art, history and material culture, and on anthropological, photographic and expeditionary history. He has undertaken fieldwork with Aboriginal people in the Simpson Desert region and, more recently, with Warlpiri people of Yuendumu. His landmark book, Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers, won the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. He has an abiding interest in unlocking the histories of objects and their collectors. Anna Kenny is an anthropologist based in Alice Springs, Central Australia. She has conducted field research with Indigenous people in the region since 1991 involving media, land and native title claims, and mining. She has been working on her PhD on Carl Strehlow's ethnographic work Die Aranda - und Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien. Anna Kenny is interested in the social and cultural history and ethnology of inland Australia, and began researching the heritage of the Muslim cameleers in early 2001.

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