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Shopping in Alice Springs is all about Aboriginal art and artifacts. Central Australian Aboriginal paintings are characterized by intricate patterns of dots—and are commonly called sand paintings because they were originally drawn on sand as ceremonial devices.
From bush poetry and traditional bush tucker recipes to anthropological texts on Indigenous people and their culture, Red Kangaroo Books has has an excellent selection of fiction and nonfiction books that encompass the region’s history, arts, flora, fauna, and geology, as well as a range of travel offerings.
