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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.

Author/Creator:

Pybus, Cassandra , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Truganini: journey through the apocalypse [by Pybus, C.]

Subjects:

Truganini, approximately 1812-1876

Robinson, George Augustus, -1866

Aboriginal Tasmanians — Biography

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of — History — 19th century

Bruny Island (Tas.) — History — 19th century

Tasmania — History — 19th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DU194.3.T78 P93 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781760873691 (electronic bk.)
1760873691 (electronic bk.)
9781760529222 [Invalid]
1760529222 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1141506427

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6110168 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301109645