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Mutant Message Down Under, Tenth Anniversary Edition
 

Mutant Message Down Under

by Marlo Morgan

Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all.
Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long... (read more)

Top tags: spirituality,  australia,  fiction,  aborigines,  anthropology (all tags)

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Dan H
  • Rated 5 stars

“A great fictional story based upon actual experience. The story leads you into thinking about the big picture without politics and partisanship. There is a reason this book has been translated into more than 20 languages. I'll read this book several more times.”

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Cheryl C
  • Rated 1 stars

“If you read the book as a vehicle to express values, it can be instructive. But the author has been criticized by the Aboriginal community of Australia, evidently admitted that the book is fictional rather than based on actual experience as she had been claiming. Then she went on to write more works based on Aboriginal thought and values. She has made a lot of money from these books, but I feel they are exploitative of Aboriginal culture without giving anything back, or indeed getting...”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.887931 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 3.377778 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Littlejen

    littlejen said:

    “Great book. Loved the "otherwordly feel" the author created. Reading it was like taking a miniature vacation. Real or not? It matters not.”

    posted Saturday, November 3 2007
  • JBSflower

    jbsflower said:

    “OH! What a wonderful testament to the fact that we are never alone, have never been alone and that all that we could ever need is already here for us. Right in front of us. ”

    posted Friday, September 7 2007
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