Pathfinders : a history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW

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The work Pathfinders : a history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Pathfinders : a history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW

Title remainder

a history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW

Statement of responsibility

Michael Bennett ; foreword by Bernadette Riley

Creator

• Bennett, Michael

Contributor

• Riley, Bernadette

Author

• Bennett, Michael

Subject

• Large print books
• Police -- Australia -- History
• Tracking and trailing
• Aboriginal Australians -- History

Genre

• Large print books

Language

eng

Summary

From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover’s wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker. With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could trace the movements of people across vast swathes of country. Celebrated as saviours of lost children and disoriented adults, and finders of missing livestock, they were also cursed by robbers on the run. Trackers live in the collective memory as one of the few examples of Aboriginal people’s skills being sought after in colonial society. In New South Wales alone, more than a thousand Aboriginal men and a smaller number of women toiled for authorities across the state after 1862. This book tells the often unlikely stories of trackers including Billy Bogan, Jimmy Governor, Tommy Gordon, Frank Williams and Alec Riley. Through his work on native title claims, historian Michael Bennett realised that the role of trackers – and how they moved between two worlds – has been largely unacknowledged. His important book reveals that their work grew out of traditional society and was sustained by the vast family networks that endure to this day. Pathfinders brings the skilled and diverse work of trackers not only to the forefront of law enforcement history but to the general shared histories of black and white Australia

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

NLAV

Dewey number

305.89915

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult

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