{"product_id":"truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse","title":"Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCassandra Pybus' ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, just off the coast of south-east Tasmania, throughout the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTruganini, and that she was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne, of whom she was the last.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe name of Truganini is vaguely familiar to most Australians as 'the last of her race'. She has become an international icon for a monumental tragedy: the extinction of the original people\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof Tasmania within her lifetime. For nearly seven decades, she lived through a psychological and cultural shift more extreme than most human imaginations could conjure. She is a hugely\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esignificant figure in Australian history and we should know about how she lived, not simply that she died. Her life was much more than a regrettable tragedy.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Tasmanian books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889794871347,"sku":"zro1789832586790","price":18.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/0789\/8675\/files\/truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse_1.jpg?v=1789832589","url":"https:\/\/briefclad.shop\/products\/truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}