{"product_id":"truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse","title":"Truganini","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the 2021 National Biography Award and shortlisted for the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTruganini's story is inspiring and haunting - a journey through the apocalypse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.' - \u003ci\u003ePROFESSOR HENRY REYNOLDS, University of Tasmania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32145303568467,"sku":"9781760529222","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781760529222.jpg?v=1777060847","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}