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Truganini : journey through the apocalypse / Cassandra Pybus.
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- ISBN: 9781760529222
- Physical Description: xix, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Sydney, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. History. Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Grand Forks Campbell Library | 994.6 PYBUS (Text) | 519049 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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.