The Tasmanians – The Story of a Doomed Race | Robert Travers | 1968 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Robert Travers's 1968 account of the fate of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania — from first European contact through the Black War and the removal of the surviving population to Flinders Island, to the death of Truganini in 1876.

Published in 1968, this is a vintage history of its era — it reflects the understanding and approach to Aboriginal Tasmanian history that was current at that time, before the more critical and rigorous scholarship of recent decades. It is useful as a document of how this history was being written and understood in the late 1960s, as well as a general narrative account of the period.

The title itself — "A Story of a Doomed Race" — reflects assumptions about Aboriginal Tasmanian extinction that have been significantly challenged since: the Tasmanian Aboriginal community continues to exist and to assert its identity and rights today.

Readers interested in more recent and considered treatments of this history will find the related titles below more fully reflect current scholarship.

CONDITION

• Used, generally good condition.
• Previous owner's name stamped in the front.
• Pages faintly tanned.

BOOK DETAILS

• Hardcover with dust jacket.
• Published 1968. Out of print.

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