title: Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia
author:  Sam D. Gill 
description: <br />"Sam Gill is an engaging writer, and he charmed me in a pleasant way....it is in fact a thoughtful disquisition on our academic project in the human sciences....[the book] well repays the effort of close reading and rereading."--<em>Journal of Anthropological Research</em>
zlib_text: ![](Images/image00096.jpeg) Christopher Raja is an Indian-born Australian
  author of short stories, essays, a play and a novel. He co-authored the play
  _The First Garden_ with Natasha Raja, which was performed in botanical gardens
  throughout Australia and published by Currency Press in 2012. His debut novel,
  _The Burning Elephant_ , __ was published in 2015 (Giramondo). It was written
  with the assistance of an Australia Council New Work grant. Christopher has
  been twice shortlisted for the Northern Territory Writers Centre’s Chief
  Minister’s Book of the Year award. He migrated from Calcutta to Melbourne in
  1986, and spends his time between Melbourne and Alice Springs.
  
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  _To David and Edith_
  
  Contents
  
  > I: Names
  
  > II: Magical Shoes
  
  > III: The Immigrants
  
  > IV: Cosmopolitan
  
  > V: Ojos del Salado
  
  > VI: Transformers
  
  > VII: Foreign Novelties
  
  > VIII: Becoming an Aussie
  
  > IX: Grand Days
  
  > X: Extinctions
  
  > XI: A Classless Society
  
  > XII: Keysborough
  
  > XIII: