Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life And Violent Death On The Colonial Frontier
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before the might of the British Empire swept across the Australian continent, there were those who stood their ground — and none more defiantly than Multuggerah, the Ugarapul warrior whose life and death became a defining chapter in Queensland's colonial history. Libby Connors' Warrior chronicles the dramatic story of this legendary leader, reconstructing his world on the Darling Downs frontier where Indigenous resistance met the relentless advance of European settlement, and where survival demanded both courage and cunning in equal measure. Connors, a distinguished Australian historian, brings rigorous scholarship and vivid narrative to a story long obscured by the silences of colonial record-keeping, weaving together archival sources and oral histories to present a portrait that is as politically urgent as it is historically revealing. Warrior forces a reckoning with the brutal realities of the colonial frontier — the violence, the dispossession, and the extraordinary resilience of those who refused to yield — leaving the reader to wonder how many more such stories remain untold, buried beneath the foundations of a nation still coming to terms with its past.
Author: Libby Connors
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before the might of the British Empire swept across the Australian continent, there were those who stood their ground — and none more defiantly than Multuggerah, the Ugarapul warrior whose life and death became a defining chapter in Queensland's colonial history. Libby Connors' Warrior chronicles the dramatic story of this legendary leader, reconstructing his world on the Darling Downs frontier where Indigenous resistance met the relentless advance of European settlement, and where survival demanded both courage and cunning in equal measure. Connors, a distinguished Australian historian, brings rigorous scholarship and vivid narrative to a story long obscured by the silences of colonial record-keeping, weaving together archival sources and oral histories to present a portrait that is as politically urgent as it is historically revealing. Warrior forces a reckoning with the brutal realities of the colonial frontier — the violence, the dispossession, and the extraordinary resilience of those who refused to yield — leaving the reader to wonder how many more such stories remain untold, buried beneath the foundations of a nation still coming to terms with its past.