| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Contents |
Friendly Mission 1829-1831 -- Extirpation and Exile 1831-1838 -- In Kulin Country 1839-1841 -- The Way the World Ends 1842-1876 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2020) |
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Truganini, approximately 1812-1876. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81125783
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Robinson, George Augustus, -1866. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84093935
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Robinson, George Augustus, -1866. fast (OCoLC)fst01844327 |
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Truganini, approximately 1812-1876. fast (OCoLC)fst00081478 |
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Biography
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Aboriginal Tasmanians, Treatment of -- History -- 19th century
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Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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Bruny Island (Tas.) -- History -- 19th century
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Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
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Tasmania.
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Tasmania -- Bruny Island.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1760873691 |
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9781760873691 |
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