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Synopsis
set in the Torres Strait of the 1830's, the story revolves around a young white man who had washed up on the island of mer after surviving a shipwreck. He could've been killed by the islanders but was spared as he was believed to be a 'Lamar' or reincarnation of an elder of the tribe. The plot revolves around his life on the island as he accustomed to their culture, learned to fight and dance, go on long fishing expeditions, adopt another name and a secret longing to escape this lifestyle and return back to civilization. Along the way he falls for a girl, who was also white by birth but was adopted by the islanders at infancy.

Practicing Citations
Drums of Mer is a novel published by Ion L. Idriess in the year 1933. It is set in Torres Strait The storyline revolves around a white man washing up over an indigenous island then disguising himself as one of the members of the tribe and is life spent so forth. The book was well accepted in the torres strait islander community as they felt they could identify with the indigenous life represented in the book. The book also had theatrical reproductions. The book also received some criticism for having some racist accords. Idriess later translated the book into a child friendly version called Headhunters of the coral sea

Describe Media
This is a .jpg picture file format. It is my own work as I made this an year ago on my personal device for a piece of writing click here to see file

License
it is under CC-SA (share alike) license, i.e if someone wishes to re-use this work they may do so with appropriate credits

Category
I put it under Quotes category as it seemed the most appropriate one, it was a quote; but I couldn't narrow down the scope because wikipedia did not have any other appropriate categories

Description addedd
I did not add a description on the media commons, because the caption for the picture summed it all, it was a quote by me, that I came up with during a sad phase of my life