Tracker Fred Marchant as they emerged from forest

as they emerged from forest mists to defend their hills and rivers and their way of life from the Romans

‘Smyth’s writing is as lushly beautiful as the landscape she describes’ THE TIMES

Davies re-cast himself as a writer back in London

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Tracker Fred Marchant as they emerged from forestWinner of the Stella Prize Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography Winner of the Queensland Literary Award Tracker is a collective memoir of the Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth. He was a visionary who with irreverent humour told it like it is. Having known him for many years, Alexis Wright interviewed Tracker and those around him, weaving their stories together in a manner reminiscent of the oral history writing of Svetlana Alexievich. A