Fighting for Justice: The Donald Thomson Story by Robert Macklin Paperback Book

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Donald Thomson at 10 years old was a lone figure in Melbourne's Bayside with its billabongs and creeks meandering to the sea. In his 'Naturalist's Diary', he recorded his collection of wildflowers to wattles, seabirds to tiny blue wrens, mammals to reptiles to fish and to insects of every shape and hue. By 16 he was part-time editor of a national nature magazine.At 28, as Australia's first home-grown anthropologist, he met the only people who truly shared his worldview: the First Nations of northern and central Australia. He wrote, 'We learned much about their language, social life, and customs, and of their elaborate rituals and tabus…and we grew to love these people.'It was this love for a world threatened with extinction that drove Donald Thomson for the rest of his life, fighting for justice through a threated invasion and the reality of a hostile and unrepentant occupation.

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Robert Macklin is the prize-winning author of 25 non-fiction works – mostly of Australian history - and four novels. His biographies of prominent Australians range from Albert Jacka VC to Hamilton Hume, the great journalist, G.E. Morrison and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.His portrait of BHP, The Big Fella, with Peter Thompson won the $30,000 Blake Dawson prize for Business Literature and his histories of Norfolk Island and the early years of colonial Australia received four best book awards from the Canberra Critics Circle.Born in Queensland and educated at the University of Queensland and the ANU, he has lectured on Australia literature at three Chinese Universities in Shanghai and Sian. His best-selling Castaway (Hachette 2019) drew on Donald Thomson's research of the Aboriginal people of North Queensland and is optioned for a TV series.

Details ISBN1761450859 Author Robert Macklin Publisher Hardie Grant Media Format Paperback Pages 384 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781761450853 Imprint Hardie Grant Media Subtitle The Donald Thomson Story Country of Publication Australia Audience General Publication Date 2024-07-30 DEWEY 508.092 AU Release Date 2024-07-29 We've got this

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