The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper

The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island

Chloe Hooper

288 pages first pub 2008 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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Moods

informative 87%
sad 68%
challenging 56%
dark 56%
emotional 43%
reflective 43%
tense 31%
adventurous 6%
inspiring 6%
mysterious 6%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 18%
fast 6%

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