{"product_id":"truganini-cassandra-pybus-9781760529222","title":"Truganini","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER, National Biography Award 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED, Prime Minister's Award for Non-fiction 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A compelling story, beautifully told' - JULIA BAIRD, author and broadcaster \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'At last, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves.' - GAYE SCULTHORPE, Curator of Oceania, The British Museum \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCassandra 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHardly 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTruganini's story is inspiring and haunting - a journey through the apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'For the first time a biographer who treats her with the insight and empathy she deserves. The result is a book of unquestionable national importance.' - PROFESSOR HENRY REYNOLDS, University of Tasmania\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cassandra Pybus","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176795865331,"sku":"9781760529222","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781760529222.jpg?v=1662089494","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/truganini-cassandra-pybus-9781760529222","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}