Tracker : stories of Tracker Tilmouth / Alexis Wright.
Publication details: Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo Publishing, 2017.Description: 620 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour), 1 map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925336337
- 1925336336
- Stories of Tracker Tilmouth
- Tilmouth, Tracker
- Tilmouth, Tracker
- Tilmouth, Tracker
- Central Land Council (Australia)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government -- Biography
- Politicians -- Northern Territory -- Biography
- Civic leaders
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Bibliography
- Biography, Literature & Literary studies
- Biographies
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Biography
- Social reformers -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government
- Civic leaders -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Biography
- Australia -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander conten
- Australian
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content
- 305.89915092
- 361.20920899915 23
- Winner 2018 Stella Prize. Winner 2018 Magarey Medal for Biography.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 305.899 WRI | Available | 067202 |
"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.
Winner 2018 Stella Prize.
Winner 2018 Magarey Medal for Biography.