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Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
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.
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Published: 2020
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781760529222
Size: 6.0 x 1.0 x 9.25 in
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