‘ An engaging story, beautifully informed’ – JULIA BAIRD, author and broadcaster ‘At last, a book to offer Truganini the proper attention she deserves.’ – GAYE SCULTHORPE, Manager of Oceania, The British Museum Cassandra Pybus’s forefathers narrated of an old Aboriginal lady who would roam across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850 s and 1860 s. As a kid, Cassandra didn’t understand this lady was Truganini, which Truganini was strolling over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. For nearly seven decades, Truganini endured a psychological and cultural shift more severe than we can think of. But her life was far more than a regrettable catastrophe. Now Cassandra has examined the original eyewitness accounts to compose Truganini’s extraordinary story completely. Hardly more than a kid, Truganini handled to make it through the devastation of the 1820 s, 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 actually ended up being an international icon for a monumental disaster – the so-called extinction of the initial people of Tasmania. Truganini’s story is motivating and haunting – a journey through the armageddon. ‘For the first time a biographer who treats her with the insight and compassion she should have. The result is a book of undeniable national value.’ – PROFESSOR HENRY REYNOLDS, University of Tasmania
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