Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse: By Cassandra Pybus. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2020. Pp. 315. A$32.99 paper.

Cassandra Pybus' biography is a beautifully written attempt to rescue Truganini from the enormous condescension of colonial posterity. Pybus believes nonetheless that she can rescue Truganini from this suffocation, noting that even in Robinson's diaries it is possible to see that she always refused to be a "passive victim" (xviii). As well as attempting to recover Truganini herself, Pybus is at pains to reanimate many Aboriginal Tasmanian figures who are sometimes written out of the story of British destruction. [Extracted from the article]