{"product_id":"truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse-cassandra-pybus-2020","title":"Truganini: journey through the apocalypse. Cassandra Pybus. 2020.","description":"\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\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\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, themself-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","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ 9781760529222 \/ Large","offer_id":40550124617810,"sku":"PYBUS1","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/95F66D47-1CF0-4917-9F75-4D7AAE0273A9.jpg?v=1696229332","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse-cassandra-pybus-2020","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}