Tracker by Wright, Alexis
Tracker by Wright, Alexis

Tracker

"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a...
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Author: Alexis Wright
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Tracker by Wright, Alexis

Tracker

$45.66
Tracker by Wright, Alexis

Tracker

$45.66
Author: Alexis Wright
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?"

In Tracker, Alexis Wright tells the story of charismatic Aboriginal Australian leader 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 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 and a strategist 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 their stories together in a manner reminiscent of Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time. 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.



Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.77d
ISBN: 9780811239851

About the Author
Wright, Alexis: - Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Polish, French, and Italian. She held the position of Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne between 2017-2022. Wright is the only author to win both the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker).
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