Tall Man A Death in Aboriginal Australia

Name: Tall Man A Death in Aboriginal Australia
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ISBN: 9781416561613

ISBN-10: 1416561617

ISBN-13: 9781416561613

Edition: 2009

Authors: Chloe Hooper

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In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured. The main suspect was Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, a charismatic cop with long experience in Aboriginal communities and decorations for his work. Chloe Hooper was asked to write about the case by the pro bono lawyer who represented Cameron Doomadgee's family. He told her it would take a couple of weeks. She spent three years following Hurley's trail to some of the wildest and most…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 4/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638

Chloe Hooper was born in 1973, and educated at the University of Melbourne and Columbia University, New York, where she studied creative writing under Philip Roth. She lives in Australia.