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Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place
Author: Daryl Tonkin and Carolyn Landon
Soft cover. Very good condition.
Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place by Daryl Tonkin and Carolyn Landon is a poignant and powerful account of cross-cultural connection, resilience, and community in mid-20th century rural Australia. Set in the forests of Gippsland, Victoria, the memoir follows Tonkin, a white bushman who, alongside his brother Harry, established a timber mill in 1937. There, he fell in love with Euphemia, an Aboriginal woman, and together they built a life and raised a family amid a close-knit Aboriginal community. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of systemic racism, government assimilation policies, and social ostracism, yet it also celebrates the strength of kinship, shared labor, and cultural respect. Told through Tonkin’s recollections and Landon’s careful narrative, the book offers a rare and intimate portrait of a way of life that has largely disappeared, while confronting the enduring legacies of injustice and the quiet heroism of those who stood against it.
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