In Jackson's Track Revisited Carolyn Landon returns to the story told by Daryl Tonkin in Jackson's Track (Penguin, Australia, 2000), the tale of his life in the great Gippsland forest living among Aboriginal timber workers. Just as his family hoped, Tonkin's memoir has created the space for more stories. In Jackson's Track Revisited, the voices of Aboriginals who lived at the Track mingle with those of the White Australians who tried to 'improve' their lives in the 1950s, the era of assimilation.

About the author

Carolyn Landon is co-author with Daryl Tonkin of Jackson's Track, Memoir of a Dreamtime Place (Penguin, Australia, 2000). Born in the USA, she came to Australia in 1968 as a traveller, hitchhiking by small aeroplane throughout the far north. A teacher in Australian state schools for almost thirty years, she and her husband Larry Hills have written and published several musical plays.

Landon has a masters degree in biography and life writing from Monash University. She has just finished writing a biography of Bette Boyanton, Cups with No Handles (forthcoming).