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Tracker : stories of Tracker Tilmouth / Alexis Wright.

By: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925336337
Other title:
  • Stories of Tracker Tilmouth
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 994.290092 23
Online resources:
Incomplete contents:
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.
Awards:
  • Victorian Premier?s Literary Award.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book 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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