Truganini
eBook - ePub

Truganini

Journey Through the Apocalypse

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Truganini

Journey Through the Apocalypse

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  3. ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
  4. TITLE PAGE
  5. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  6. DEDICATION
  7. CONTENTS
  8. MAPS
  9. PREFACE
  10. FRIENDLY MISSION 1829–1831
  11. EXTIRPATION AND EXILE 1831–1838
  12. IN KULIN COUNTRY 1839–1841
  13. THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS 1842–1876
  14. PIC SECTION
  15. AFTERWORD
  16. TIMELINE
  17. BIOGRAPHIES
  18. NAMING
  19. SOURCES
  20. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS