Geordie Williamson

And that someone else is Bruce Tracker Tillmuth.

Now, Bruce Tillmuth, I'm ashamed to say, I only knew as a distant name.

I didn't really know a great deal about him.

But this guy was a giant of the top end.

He was an East Narente man who was born in the 1950s in Alice.

And he was taken away from his family at an early age after his mother's death, even though his aunts and uncle were willing to take him in.

And he and his younger brothers, who the family was divided in parenting, they were the darker siblings.

And they got sent way up north to Croker Island to a mission.

So he was a full-blown member of the Stolen Generation.

And it's interesting to see...

Tracker, whose words are contained within this biography, along with those of friends, family, colleagues, people who knew him and admired him.

And yet his own words seem to speak of a generation which was very much winnowed out by the experience of being a member of the Stolen Generations.

Yep.

And this ain't no literary biography.

What do we know about literary biography?

It emerges out of a kind of European or Anglo ideal context.

that was basically invented in the Romantic era.

We think of Napoleon's political self-assertions.

We think of Wordsworth and his kind of solitary rambles.

We think of all of those people who were very concerned about defining themselves as individuals against society, against family, against faith or caste,