Snake Cradle — Roberta Sykes

Author: Roberta Sykes

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback

Edition: First edition, first published in 1997 by Allen & Unwin.

ISBN: 9781864485134

Condition: Second-hand paperback. Light shelf wear and minor handling marks to the cover and edges. Old bookseller price sticker on rear cover. Pages appear clean and binding appears intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Snake Cradle is the first volume of Roberta Sykes’s three-volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming. It follows Sykes’s early life in Townsville in the 1940s and 1950s, her childhood experiences of racism and illness, the birth of her son when she was seventeen, and the events that helped shape her lifelong commitment to Aboriginal rights and social justice.