Review

Tongerlongeter is the story of guerrilla warfare - in the Tasmanian bush

By Michael McKernan
August 21 2021 - 12:00am
Nick Clements with the book he wrote with Dr Henry Reynolds, on Tongerlongeter. Picture: Phillip Biggs
Nick Clements with the book he wrote with Dr Henry Reynolds, on Tongerlongeter. Picture: Phillip Biggs
  • Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader & Tasmanian War Hero, by Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements. NewSouth, $34.99.

This is the most outstanding work of Australian history I have read so far this year. It is an immensely sad book, well-written, deeply researched, with novelty on every page. Even Henry Reynolds conclusion, furiously written, should be chiselled on tablets of stone. Why, he asks, unlike so many other societies, are our heroes selected from such a narrow range of Australian experience?

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