There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.
From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles.
A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker.
With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could trace the movements of people across vast swathes of country.
Celebrated as saviours of lost children and disoriented adults and finders of missing livestock, they were also cursed by robbers on.
Newsouth Books Pathfinders: a history of aboriginal trackers in nsw, paperback/michael bennett
