Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse
Author Talk with by Cassandra Pybus
6pm, Tuesday 10 March
Cost $20
Venue
Foyer Theatre, Ground Floor, National Library of Australia, Parkes ACT.
Listen to historian and award-winning author Cassandra Pybus discuss the inspiring and heart-wrenching story of Truganini.
The 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 of Tasmania within her lifetime. For nearly seven decades she lived through a psychological and cultural shift more extreme than most human imaginations could conjure.
Cassandra examines the original eyewitness accounts to write Truganini’s extraordinary story.
A lively, intelligent, young woman, Truganini managed to survive the devastating decade of the 1820s when the clans of south-eastern Tasmania were all but extinguished. Taken away from Bruny Island in 1830, she spent five years on a journey around Tasmania, across rugged highland with the self-styled missionary George Augustus Robinson, who was collecting all the surviving people to send them into exile on Flinders Island. She managed to avoid a long incarceration on Flinders Island when Robinson took her to Victoria where she was implicated in the murder of two white men. Acquitted of murder, she was returned to Tasmania where she lived for another thirty-five years.
Listen to historian Cassandra Pybus discuss her new book Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse.
The venue
Foyer Theatre, Ground Floor
National Library of Australia
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT
Contact
T: 02 6262 1111
Parking
There are several car parks surrounding the Library. A large all day car park can be found further along Parkes Place, towards the lake. Disabled parking can be found immediately south of the Library, in the car park closest to the front entrance. A smaller all day car park is also located south of the Library, near the loading bay and secure bicycle parking facilities.
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Bicycle parking is available on the south side of the front entrance and in the car park adjacent to the loading dock off King Edward Terrace.