Truganini by Cassandra Pybus - ISBN: 9781760529222
Paperback
Truganini’s inspiring, haunting story: survival against impossible odds, a journey through apocalypse.

Truganini

Journey through the apocalypse

$35.53

  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2020

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Summary

WINNER, National Biography Award 2021

SHORTLISTED, Prime Minister’s Award for Non-fiction 2021

‘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

Cassandra Pybus’s ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760529222
ISBN-10:1760529222
Author:Cassandra Pybus
Publisher:Allen & Unwin
Imprint:Allen & Unwin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:3 March 2020
Weight:450g
Dimensions:235mm x 155mm x 26mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘That Pybus has been able to retrieve this small, tough, canny woman is a genuine contribution to our evolving national discourse.’ The Weekend Australian‘The outstanding achievement of Truganini that Cassandra Pybus rescues her cast of characters from the shadows of history and places them firmly and convincingly on the page as real people, with real emotions, real hopes and fears.’ The Canberra Times ‘Pybus writes beautifully, with great economy of style and admirable emotional restraint. Her under-statement renders the bare bones of the saga, as the tragedy mounts, both heart-wringing and gutwrenching.’ - History Australia

About The Author

Cassandra Pybus

Cassandra Pybus is an award-winning author and a distinguished historian. She is author of twelve 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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