Truganini: Journey Through The Apocalypse
Pybus Cassandra
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 11. März 2003
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In den Warenkorb legenVerkauft von THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australien
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 11. März 2003
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den Warenkorb legen23.0 x 15.0cms 314pp colour illusts very good paperback & cover This book shows how Truganini survived the devestation of the 1820s when the Europeans nearly extinguished the clans of south-eastern Tasmania. Shetrecked across Tasmania with George Augustus Robinson and lived on Flinders Island. SALE PRICE.
Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20952860
*Winner of the 2021 National Biography Award and shortlisted for the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards*
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne.
For nearly seven decades, Truganini lived through a psychological and cultural shift more extreme than we can imagine. But her life was much more than a regrettable tragedy. Now Cassandra has examined the original eyewitness accounts to write Truganini's extraordinary story in full.
Hardly more than a child, Truganini managed to survive the devastation of the 1820s, when the clans of south-eastern Tasmania were all but extinguished. She spent five years on a journey around Tasmania, across rugged highlands and through barely penetrable forests, with George Augustus Robinson, the self-styled missionary who was collecting the survivors to send them into exile on Flinders Island. She has become an international icon for a monumental tragedy - the so-called extinction of the original people of Tasmania.
Truganini's story is inspiring and haunting - a journey through the apocalypse.
'For the first time a biographer who treats her with the insight and empathy she deserves. The result is a book of unquestionable national importance.' - PROFESSOR HENRY REYNOLDS, University of Tasmania
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