{"product_id":"2026100011012-secondhand-goodbye-bussamarai-the-mandandanji-land-war-southern-queensland-1842-1852","title":"Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; slightly creased spine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fertile river country of southern Queensland, a war was fought that history almost forgot — Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842–1852 chronicles the violent and tragic dispossession of the Mandandanji people as European settlers pushed relentlessly into their ancestral lands. At the heart of this gripping narrative stands Bussamarai, a formidable Mandandanji warrior and leader whose fierce resistance to colonial encroachment made him one of the most significant yet overlooked figures in Australian frontier history. Patrick Collins reconstructs a decade of conflict with meticulous precision, drawing on colonial records, oral histories, and archival sources to illuminate a chapter of Queensland's past that has long been obscured by silence and neglect.\n\nCollins writes with both scholarly rigour and narrative flair, presenting a work that is as much a human story as it is a work of historical reckoning. Described by historian Raymond Evans as a tour de force in both research and historical reconstruction, this book forces an unflinching confrontation with the brutal realities of Australia's colonial frontier wars. It raises urgent questions about memory, justice, and the legacies of violence that continue to shape the nation — leaving the reader to wonder how many more stories like Bussamarai's remain buried beneath the silence of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572678627547,"sku":"2026100011012-SECONDHAND","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4b08d47a-a6e5-4e1c-a7ba-b88d3bc6c3d9.png?v=1791167269","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011012-secondhand-goodbye-bussamarai-the-mandandanji-land-war-southern-queensland-1842-1852","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}