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Tall Man - A Death in Aboriginal Australia (Paperback)
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Tall Man - A Death in Aboriginal Australia (Paperback)
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Loot Price R459
Discovery Miles 4 590
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In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep
North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron
Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer.
Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police
claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured. The
main suspect was Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, a charismatic
cop with long experience in Aboriginal communities and decorations
for his work.
Chloe Hooper was asked to write about the case by the pro bono
lawyer who represented Cameron Doomadgee's family. He told her it
would take a couple of weeks. She spent three years following
Hurley's trail to some of the wildest and most remote parts of
Australia, exploring Aboriginal myths and history and the roots of
brutal chaos in the Palm Island community. Her stunning account
goes to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge, and justice.
Told in luminous detail, "Tall Man" is as urgent as "Bury My Heart
at Wounded Knee" and "The Executioner's Song." It is the story of
two worlds clashing--and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader
will forget.
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