Surveying the Wild Abyss by Barry Corr
In this groundbreaking history of colonisation and frontier conflict in the Hawkesbury region, First Nations historian Barry Corr navigates the gaps and silences in the primary records to reveal settler amnesia, the cataclysmic nature of colonisation, and the way history is remembered, or not remembered. Driven by primary source analysis of colonial records and deeply informed by Corr' s perspectives and community connections as an Aboriginal person who has lived most of his life in the Western Sydney Aboriginal community, Surveying the Wild Abyss asks non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians to reflect on their history, and reinvents the way Australian history is written.
Barry Corr is an Aboriginal man who has lived most of his life near Dhurabang, the river that settler society thinks of as both the Hawkesbury and the Nepean. As a university student he was a member of Student Action for Aborigines and took part in the 1965 Bus Trip, which has been memorialised as the Freedom Ride, including follow-up trips to Walgett and Bowraville in 1965-66. As a person, a teacher, and an Aboriginal education consultant at a regional and state level, his identity and career have been shaped by the Aboriginal people of western Sydney. Barry has been involved in the development of a management plan for Shaws Creek Aboriginal Place, successfully applied to extend its boundaries, and participated in Bush Care there. Living in the Hawkesbury he has long recognised it as a haunted landscape where memory refuses to go away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781761170423 |
| ISBN 10 | 1761170422 |
| Title | Surveying the Wild Abyss |
| Author | Barry Corr |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | NewSouth Publishing |
| Year published | 2026-07-01 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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