$40.00
Tongerlongeter is an epic storu of resistance, sorrow and survival. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-west Tasmiania in the 1820s and ’30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies prosocuted the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil, inflicted some 354 casualities. His brilliant campaign inspired terror throughout the colony, forcing Governor George Arthur to counter with a massiv4 military operation in 1830. Eventually agreeing to an armistice, in exile on Flinders Island, he united remnant tribes and became the settlement’s ‘King’ – a beacon of hope in a hopeless situation.
First edition 221, card cover, colour artworks, maps, index (very good condition)
