Tracker : stories of tracker tilmouth

by Alexis Wright

Other authors: Ben Juers (Cover artist)

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"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.… (more)

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shawjonathan | Jan 16, 2019 |

To read my review of this book up to about page 250, please see https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/04/10/tracker-stories-of-tracker-tilmouth-by-alexi...
(I finished reading it a few days after the book won the Stella Prize. I think now that I'd read the best of it at the time I wrote the review, reading the ins and outs of Aboriginal politics is rather draining and at times I nearly decided not to finish it.) (

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Alexis Wright	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Juers, Ben	Cover artist	secondary author	all editions	confirmed