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Sto caricando le informazioni... Pemulwuy, the rainbow warriordi Eric Willmot
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. 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, nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
This is the story of one of Australia's first true heroes Pemulwuy. A proud and feared Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy leads an uncompromising twelve-year war against British colonial oppression and makes the supreme sacrifice in order to guide his people to safety. Most histories of Australia start with the First Fleet and the hard times the colonists had with the climate and unruly convicts. Very few mention what really happened or the blood that was spilled in the wars never spoken of. Pemulwuy a Bidjigal man unites the neighbouring peoples runaway convicts bushrangers and an escaped African known as Black Caesar in a guerilla war that pushes the invading English to the brink. This novel was conceived out of Pemulwuy's legend and the historical events between 1788 and 1802. It is a story that all Australians should know. 'This is more than a novel, more than a story, it is the Big Bang: where the idea of Australia starts.' Stan Grant. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.3Literature English English fiction Elizabethan 1558-1625Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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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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