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Truganini : journey through the apocalypse / Cassandra Pybus.

By: Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xix, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760529222
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 994.6092 23
Partial contents:
Includes Biographies (pages 280-309): People of the South-east Nation. Manganerer -- Truganini (aka Lydgugee, Lalla Rookh) -- Wooredy (aka Mutteele, Doctor, Count Alpha) -- People of the South-west Nation. Dray (aka Sophia) -- Pegernoberric (aka Bessy Clark) -- Towterer (aka Romeo) -- People of the Oyster Bay Nation. Bullyer (aka Drummernerlooner, Jumbo, Louisa) -- Kickerterpoller (aka Tom Birch, Black Tom) -- Mannalargenna -- Maytepueminer (aka Matilda, New Maria) -- Tanganutura (aka Tibb, Sarah) -- People of the North Midland Nation. Meelerleeter (aka Leenimeener, Jack Allen, VDL Jack, Paddy) -- Richard (aka Cranky Dick) -- Umarrah (aka Kaneherlargenna) -- People of the North-east Nation. Maulboyheener (aka Timme, Big Tuery's Jemmy, Robert) -- Plorenernoopner (aka Woreterpowidyer, Jock, Fanny) -- People of the Ben Lomond Nation. Thomas Brune -- Trowlebunner (aka Rolepa, Rolepanner, Achilles) -- Walter George Arthur (aka Friday) -- People of the North Nation. Lacklay (aka Probelattener, Little Jenny, Isaac) -- People of the North-west Nation. Coonenia (aka Patty) -- Peevay (aka Tunnerminerwait, Napoleon, Jack) -- Wyne -- Billy Lanne (aka King Billy) -- People of the Big River Nation. Mannapackername (aka Meerkerpakaminer, Big Jemmy, King Alphonso) -- Robert (aka Black Bob).
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." --Publisher website.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 994.6092 TRU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68343

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313)

Includes Biographies (pages 280-309): People of the South-east Nation. Manganerer -- Truganini (aka Lydgugee, Lalla Rookh) -- Wooredy (aka Mutteele, Doctor, Count Alpha) -- People of the South-west Nation. Dray (aka Sophia) -- Pegernoberric (aka Bessy Clark) -- Towterer (aka Romeo) -- People of the Oyster Bay Nation. Bullyer (aka Drummernerlooner, Jumbo, Louisa) -- Kickerterpoller (aka Tom Birch, Black Tom) -- Mannalargenna -- Maytepueminer (aka Matilda, New Maria) -- Tanganutura (aka Tibb, Sarah) -- People of the North Midland Nation. Meelerleeter (aka Leenimeener, Jack Allen, VDL Jack, Paddy) -- Richard (aka Cranky Dick) -- Umarrah (aka Kaneherlargenna) -- People of the North-east Nation. Maulboyheener (aka Timme, Big Tuery's Jemmy, Robert) -- Plorenernoopner (aka Woreterpowidyer, Jock, Fanny) -- People of the Ben Lomond Nation. Thomas Brune -- Trowlebunner (aka Rolepa, Rolepanner, Achilles) -- Walter George Arthur (aka Friday) -- People of the North Nation. Lacklay (aka Probelattener, Little Jenny, Isaac) -- People of the North-west Nation. Coonenia (aka Patty) -- Peevay (aka Tunnerminerwait, Napoleon, Jack) -- Wyne -- Billy Lanne (aka King Billy) -- People of the Big River Nation. Mannapackername (aka Meerkerpakaminer, Big Jemmy, King Alphonso) -- Robert (aka Black Bob).

"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." --Publisher website.

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