Tracker : stories of Tracker Tilmouth
Wright, Alexis, 1950-2017
Book
"A collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth, who died in Darwin in 2015 at the age of 62. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determination, creating opportunities for land use and economic development in his many roles, including Director of the Central Land Council of the Northern Territory. Tracker was a visionary, a strategist and a projector of ideas, renowned for his irreverent humour and his determination to tell things the way he saw them. Having known him for many years, Alexis Wright interviewed Tracker, along with family, friends, colleagues, and the politicians he influenced, weaving his and their stories together in a manner reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize–winning author Svetlana Alexievich. The book is as much a testament to the powerful role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of an extraordinary man."--Back cover.
Main title:
Tracker : stories of Tracker Tilmouth / Alexis Wright.
Author:
Wright, Alexis, 1950-, author
Imprint:
Artarmon, NSW Giramondo Publishing Company, 2017.©2017
Collation:
620 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour), 1 map ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Librarians choice ; 2017 NovStella Prize [literary award] ; 2018.
Notes:
"The Miles Franklin Award-Winning author's tribute to the visionary Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth"--Cover.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781925336337
Dewey class:
305.89915092361.20920899915305.8991
Language:
English
Subject:
Tilmouth, TrackerCentral Land Council (Australia)Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rightsAboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government -- BiographyCivic leaders -- Australia -- BiographyPoliticians -- Northern Territory -- BiographySocial reformers -- Australia -- BiographyTorres Strait Islanders -- BiographyAustralia -- Officials and employees -- BiographyBiographies
BRN:
13690