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Truganini : journey through the apocalypse / Cassandra Pybus.
Van Pelt Library DU194.3.T78 P93 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pybus, Cassandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truganini, approximately 1812-1876.
- Truganini.
- Robinson, George Augustus, -1866.
- Robinson, George Augustus.
- Aboriginal Tasmanians--Biography.
- Aboriginal Tasmanians.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--History--19th century.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
- History.
- Bruny Island (Tas.)--History--19th century.
- Bruny Island (Tas.).
- Tasmania--History--19th century.
- Tasmania.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781760529222
- 1760529222
- OCLC:
- 1129132830
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