The Trackers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
The Trackers by B. Wongar is a haunting work of literary fiction set against the vast, spiritually charged landscape of the Australian outback, where Aboriginal culture and colonial trauma collide with devastating force. Written by the pseudonymous author who drew deeply from Aboriginal oral traditions and lived experience, the novel chronicles the pursuit of Indigenous Australians by government trackers — men tasked with hunting down their own people in service of a brutal colonial system. With a tone that is both elegiac and searing, the narrative illustrates the profound spiritual and psychological wounds inflicted upon a people stripped of their land, their children, and their identity. Wongar's prose carries the weight of myth and memory, grounding the story in the sacred rhythms of Aboriginal belief even as it confronts the violence of dispossession. The result is a powerful and deeply unsettling work that stands as both a literary achievement and a moral indictment of Australia's colonial legacy.
Author: B. Wongar
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Outback Press
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
The Trackers by B. Wongar is a haunting work of literary fiction set against the vast, spiritually charged landscape of the Australian outback, where Aboriginal culture and colonial trauma collide with devastating force. Written by the pseudonymous author who drew deeply from Aboriginal oral traditions and lived experience, the novel chronicles the pursuit of Indigenous Australians by government trackers — men tasked with hunting down their own people in service of a brutal colonial system. With a tone that is both elegiac and searing, the narrative illustrates the profound spiritual and psychological wounds inflicted upon a people stripped of their land, their children, and their identity. Wongar's prose carries the weight of myth and memory, grounding the story in the sacred rhythms of Aboriginal belief even as it confronts the violence of dispossession. The result is a powerful and deeply unsettling work that stands as both a literary achievement and a moral indictment of Australia's colonial legacy.