Eric Willmot
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Wow this book was good!
Pemulwuy was one of Australia's first genuine champion. A Bidjigal man, he united the local people in a war against the British spanning twelve years that pushed them almost to the brink. In school you learn about the first landing, the terrible living conditions & the harsh climate. This is the story of what really happened & the beginning of the decline of the Aborigines.....
This book was really well written. Willmot's descriptions jump off the page & I really enjoyed how he'd intersperse the story with little snippets of information, eg, describing the Eora warriors spear throwing style (yikes!) The descriptions came alive in my mind, I could see Pemulwuy & Awabakal striding through the bush & despaired with Bennelong when he realises the situation's hopeless.
Personally, I think this book should be on the curriculum in all Australian schools.… (altro)
Pemulwuy was one of Australia's first genuine champion. A Bidjigal man, he united the local people in a war against the British spanning twelve years that pushed them almost to the brink. In school you learn about the first landing, the terrible living conditions & the harsh climate. This is the story of what really happened & the beginning of the decline of the Aborigines.....
This book was really well written. Willmot's descriptions jump off the page & I really enjoyed how he'd intersperse the story with little snippets of information, eg, describing the Eora warriors spear throwing style (yikes!) The descriptions came alive in my mind, I could see Pemulwuy & Awabakal striding through the bush & despaired with Bennelong when he realises the situation's hopeless.
Personally, I think this book should be on the curriculum in all Australian schools.… (altro)
A very interesting view of the early establishment of the British settlement of the east coast of Australia and the level of resistance by aboriginal tribes around Sydney during the first 20-25 years. That it has taken over 200 years to be written is a sign we still have a long way to go in our treatment of the original inhabitants,
Pemulwuy was a leader of the Eora people - the Aboriginal langauge group that lived where Sydney now stands. This is the story of the resistance of the Aboriginal people to the invasion of their lands.
A gripping novel of an aspect of Australia's contact history not often written about.
A gripping novel of an aspect of Australia's contact history not often written about.
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Following an important Background, the story of Pemulwuy is framed within a structure of three parts of truth which arise from a story told by an old man (Mundi) to children about the spirits entering Yunada...
The subtlety of framing the story as he does escapes me but I'm convinced that is my failing rather than any shortcoming by Eric Willmot. Essentially we read about a series of skirmishes culminating in the defeat and despair that reverberates today.
Willmot proposes that the main reason so little is known (even now) about how the great warrior Pemulwuy fought against the British for more than a decade and went close to driving them out of Tuhbowgule (Eora name for Sydney Harbour) is that the Rum Corps made no mention in reports back to England of him or the war they were fighting for fear that reinforcements would be sent and their corrupt practices disturbed.
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