This book is the first comprehensive biography of Curr and explores both his life and legacy. In particular, it considers his posthumous influence on the Yorta Yorta native title case (1994-2001), when his written account of the Yorta Yorta ancestors played a key role in the failure of the claim.
Contents:
Prologue: 'Claim sunk by pen of a swordsman' -- From Sheffield to Van Diemen's Land -- 'Troubles of a beginner' -- 'A station formed at Tongala' -- Claiming the Moira -- Decline and fall -- Rebuilding a reputation -- Recollections of squatting -- 'The native is a child' -- Australian race -- Ethnographic rivalries -- 'My sable neighbours' -- Tide of history -- Epilogue: 'The ghost of Edward Curr'.

Includes bibliographical references and index.