
Carolyn Landon and Daryl Tonkin, Jacksons Track: memoir of a dreamtime.
Black Swan (Allen & Unwin 2011), memoirs of Victorian Aboriginal artist, Eileen Harrison. Jindivick is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on Jacksons Track, in the Shire of Baw.
Cups with No Handles, memoir of a grassroots activist (Hybrid 2008) a biography of Bette Boyanton, a founder of the Neighbourhood House Movement. Jackson’s Track Revisited (Monash University Publishing 2006), an examination of differing viewpoints of one story of Aboriginal assimilation using oral testimony and archival records. Jackson’s Track, Memoir of a Dreamtime Place (Penguin 1999) co-authored with Daryl Tonkin. A former secondary teacher in Literature, English and Journalism, she is an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University (School of Historical Studies). ISBN: 0670883328 9780670883325: OCLC Number: 51885862: Description: xviii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps 23 cm: Responsibility: Carolyn Landon & Daryl Tonkin. Carolyn has a Bachelor’s Degree in Literature and Philosophy (Beloit College Wisconsin) and an MA in Biography and Life Writing (Monash University). Her most recent biography of the renowned botanical artist, Celia Rosser, Banksia Lady, Celia Rosser Botanical Artist was published in June 2015 by Monash University Publishing. An unforgettable true story of joy and tragedy, and of hope in the face of adversity.Carolyn Landon is a biographer/memoirist/historian. It tells of one man's courage to pursue what he knows is right. This riveting memoir recaptures a community, place and way of life long vanished. But Daryl is white and Euphie is black, and neither of them is prepared for the conflict their forbidden love ignites. An experienced bushman, the 'quiet type', Daryl works to clear the scrub exploring the land and its ancient people, he unexpectedly falls in love.
The following year they set up a timber mill at Jackson's Track - a dreamtime place - in the rich temperate forests of south-eastern Victoria. In 1936, at the height of the Great Depression, Daryl Tonkin and his brother Harry head to the bush searching for work and adventure.