How do you tell an impossible story, one that is too big to contain in a single book? Alexis Wright's magnificent collective memoir tells the story of the irreverent Aboriginal Australian leader Tracker Tilmouth, who was forcibly removed from his family by the government as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker island. In her words: "Tracker was among the most extraordinary contemporary story-makers in the Aboriginal world. He was the story. Tracker was a deadly serious man, but he had an innate way of knowing how to get to his audience through his sense of fun, and his seeing the absolute ridiculousness of what Aboriginal people were forced to deal with. Tracker was like a constantly travelling traditional song man who conjured up exceptional times, and these times became embedded in the minds of the people who knew him. Always at the centre of what was happening, Tracker epitomised Aboriginal thinking at some of this country's highest levels of political manoeuvring, for land rights, native tide, and economic development. Tracker always looked at the bigger economic picture, larger than the actual reality for Aboriginal people, which he frequently called the vision splendid" A monumental work of oral history by the astonishingly gifted Alexis Wright, Australia's most highly acclaimed writer, Tracker is as much a testament to the powerful role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of an extraordinary man.