Tracker : stories of Tracker Tilmouth / Alexis Wright.
Publisher: Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 620 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cmContent type:- cartographic image
- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925336337
- Stories of Tracker Tilmouth
- Tilmouth, Tracker -- Friends and associates
- Tilmouth, Tracker
- Tilmouth, Tracker, 1953-2015
- Tilmouth, Tracker
- Tilmouth, Tracker
- Central Land Council (Australia)
- Central Land Council (Australia)
- Central Land Council (Australia)
- Croker Island Mission (N.T.)
- Biography, Literature & Literary studies
- Politicians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Bibliography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government -- Biography
- Civic leaders
- Social reformers
- Biography, Literature & Literary studies
- Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Biographies
- Biography
- Civic leaders -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Bibliography
- Native title - Agreements - Indigenous Land Use
- Politics and Government - Political action - Activism
- Government policy - Self determination
- Economics - Economic development
- Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government
- Civic leaders
- Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
- Social reformers -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government -- Biography
- Politicians -- Northern Territory -- Biography
- Australia
- Northern Territory
- Australia -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Australia
- Australia -- Officials and employees
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander conten
- Australian
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content
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- Victorian Premier?s Literary Award.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 994.290092 TIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 68335 |
"The Miles Franklin Award-Winning author's tribute to the visionary Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- I. Trying to get the story straight -- II. Becoming dangerous -- III. The inspirational thinker -- IV. The vision splendid -- V. The unreliable witness -- List of People, Places and Organisations -- Contributor Biographies -- Acknowledgements.
Novelist Alexis Wright returns to non-fiction in her new book, Tracker Tilmouth, a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker, and entrepreneur who died in Darwin in 2015. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth returned home to transform the world of Aboriginal politics. He worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determination, creating opportunities for land use and economic development in his many roles, including Director of the Central Land Council. He was a visionary and a projector of ideas, renowned for his irreverent humour and his anecdotes. His memoir has been composed by Wright from interviews with Tilmouth himself, as well as with his family, friends, and colleagues, weaving his and their stories together into a book that is as much a tribute to the role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of a remarkable man.
Victorian Premier?s Literary Award.
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