Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus

Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781760529222
Author: Cassandra Pybus
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2020
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Date due slip on inside page. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

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 fully write Truganini's extraordinary story. 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. (back cover)

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