num_pages: 29
description: Charlie Truganini cant believe his eyes when on a trip into Tasmanias wilderness he sees a Tasmanian tiger  a carnivorous marsupial considered by most Australians to be extinct.Charlie has a number of claims to fame  one of those being hes a direct descendant of one Truganini the woman considered to be the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian and whose name he inherited. A close second to that is hes the great-grandson of one Dingo Truganini the tracker who helped capture the last known Thylacine cynocephalus  an animal better known as the Tasmanian tiger.Its his admiration for his great-grandfathers exploits that explains why Charlie has devoted his life to searching for the Tassie tiger as he refers to it or the thylacine as scientific types insist on calling it to determine one way or the other whether it still exists. He has always suspected it does despite having never sighted it nor even stumbled across its spoor in all his travels.When Charlie sees a Tasmanian tiger with his own eyes he realises he doesnt want his tiger meeting the same fate as the last one. And so he makes a decision. A decision that will have life-and-death consequences.
language: English
title: The Last Tasmanian Tiger
publisher: Sterling Gate Books