{"product_id":"2026200015832-secondhand-the-cry-for-the-dead","title":"The Cry For The Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searing indictment of colonial violence and a profound meditation on memory, The Cry for the Dead by Judith Wright chronicles the brutal dispossession of Aboriginal Australians through the lens of her own family's pastoral history in Queensland. Wright, one of Australia's most celebrated poets and environmental activists, turns her unflinching gaze upon the frontier conflicts of the nineteenth century, piecing together from diaries, letters, and official records a devastating account of a land and its people torn apart by settlement and greed. The narrative moves between the personal and the historical, interweaving the stories of her pioneering ancestors with those of the Indigenous communities whose lives, culture, and sovereignty were systematically destroyed in the name of progress.\n\nWhat distinguishes this work is Wright's rare combination of lyrical precision and moral courage — she does not merely document atrocity, but holds her own bloodline accountable, refusing the comfortable myths of benevolent settlement. Written with the same passionate clarity that defines her poetry, the book argues that Australia cannot move forward without first confronting the full truth of its colonial past. It stands as a landmark of Australian historical writing, as urgent and unsettling today as when it was first published — leaving the reader to wrestle with a question that has no easy answer: what is owed to the dead?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203265765595,"sku":"2026200015832-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e8547f92-31ef-435a-bc86-33d1ea7d82be.png?v=1788146922","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015832-secondhand-the-cry-for-the-dead","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}