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Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse Paperback – Illustrated, September 1, 2020

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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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"A compelling story, beautifully told." —Julia Baird, author and broadcaster

"At last, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves." —Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator of Oceania, The British Museum

"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

"The book has an inevitable unhappy ending and is an important reminder of the continuing impact of racism and colonialism. However, Truganini’s life is worth more than its surrounding circumstances. Her words and thoughts are lost to us, but she was a human being whose story deserves to be told for its own sake.
Truganini is a powerful biography set during the colonization of nineteenth-century Australia." —Foreword Reviews

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Cassandra Pybus is an award-winning author and a distinguished historian. She is author of 12 books and has held research professorships at the University of Sydney, Georgetown University in Washington DC, the University of Texas and King's College London. She is descended from the colonist who received the largest free land grant on Truganini's traditional country of Bruny Island.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Allen & Unwin; Illustrated edition (September 1, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1760529222
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1760529222
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9.25 inches
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Cassandra Pybus prizewinning writer of creative nonfiction. As a distinguished historian, Cassandra has always been interested in recovering hidden or neglected stories from the past. She has written about Harry, the runaway slave of George Washington who went on to lead a rebellion in Sierra Leone in Epic Journeys of Freedom, or the dynastic machinations of the English adventurers James and Charles Brooke in The White Rajahs of Sarawak, or Lillian, the enigmatic woman who walked alone across the subarctic wilderness in The Woman Who Walked to Russia.

Cassandra has lived in various cities in Australia and North America, but her heart’s country is the south east corner of Tasmania, where her British ancestors settled 200 years ago. Within fifty years of her ancestor’s arrival, the original people who lived in and shaped the landscape of this beautiful island for 40,000 years were all gone This was the subject of Cassandra’s first book, Community of Thieves and three decades later she returned to her island home to explore more of the traumatic history of her heart’s country with her prizewinning biography Truganini: journey through the apocalypse in 2002 followed by A Very Secret Trade in 2024.

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  • EJM
    4.0 out of 5 stars A side of history rarely discussed
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2021
    This carefully researched account of Truganini's life is fascinating and draws a vivid picture of Tasmania at a time of genocide and great upheaval. Important, if heavy, read.
  • T. J. O'Neill
    5.0 out of 5 stars deeply insightful
    Reviewed in Australia on January 15, 2024
    I’m thankful to have read this book. It highlights the extraordinarily tragic way in which First Nation peoples in Tasmania were cast aside. As a Tasmanian I am indebted to the author for telling this incredible but tragic story and for opening my eyes to our sad past. I highly recommend this book.
  • Renee Oberin
    4.0 out of 5 stars Essential
    Reviewed in Australia on April 12, 2022
    Amazingly well researched, vivid and comprehensive in detail. The story is beautifully rendered, heart- wrenching and disturbing. The accompanying images amplify what should be Truganni’s real legacy. Truth telling.
  • Mick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
    Reviewed in Australia on October 11, 2024
    Informative and entertaining
  • Sue Hogg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important Australian story to be told
    Reviewed in Australia on May 10, 2021
    Fabulous book and a history that needs to be better understood by Australians.
    Like most Australians I knew why Truganini was famous and that she was reputed to be the last of the full blood indigenous Tasmanians. But that was all.
    The authors introduction was challenging and I was concerned it may be a "black arm band rant". Not only was it not, but I soon realised that the things she had railed about were fully justified. However, the story that was told was so insightful. Truganini was an amazingly accomplished and independent woman.
    I also enjoyed that the indigenous people were shown to have the same strengths and flaws as Europeans, family relationships were very important to them, they were loyal, they were ambitious they were rivals with other clans and they fought wars. They weren't naive primitives as some people assume. Unfortunately, it was their technology and lack of resistance to European diseases did not equip them to be able to resist the inflow of Europeans. However, their technology was well suited to prosper in Tasmania, unfortunately most Europeans didn't recognise that and learn from them.
    But why I rate this book so highly is that it pulled together a diverse history and wove it into a fascinating and interesting story. I also loved learning about Truganini and her people and how they lived (thrived) in the bush.
    Oh, one other personal thing - Several years ago I walked the South Coast track of Tasmania. This was essentially the track used by Truganini and her clan to walk across to Port Davey, described early in the book. I recognised many of the features and landscapes that were described, so it was a thrill to know that I had walked in the tracks of this amazing person.