A Very Secret Trade by Cassandra Pybus


ISBN
9781761066344
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Dimensions
153 x 234mm

Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history.

Collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania in the nineteenth century. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, including skeletons of the thylacine and the platypus. But they were not just interested in animals and plants. The belief that the original people of the colony were an utterly unique race and facing possible extinction had the European scientific community scrambling for human exhibits.

Many eminent colonial figures were involved in this clandestine trade, among them four colonial governors several key politicians and even Lady Jane Franklin, while in Britain, Sir Joseph Banks, the Duke of Newcastle and Professor Thomas Huxley were among many eminent men who solicited human specimens from the colony. Worse still, the men responsible for the care and protection of the few original people who had survived the ravages of disease and the infamous Black Wars, were prominent in the trade.

Cassandra Pybus has uncovered one of the darkest and most carefully hidden secrets in Australia's colonial history. It is time we all knew the truth.

'A deeply ethical, and deeply disturbing, historical reckoning-a model of truth-telling for white Australians. In spell-binding prose, Cassandra Pybus reveals the continuing legacies of colonial dispossession...' - Professor Warwick Anderson

'Exhaustively researched and arrestingly told' - Professor Mark McKenna
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