Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara)

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara)

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780702233555
Author: Doris Pilkington [Nugi Garimar]
Edition: 3rd Edition
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Place: St Lucia QLD
Year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor marks on right foredge. Minor wear to corners.

The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600-kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, north of Perth.

Here Aboriginal children were instructed in the ways of white society and forbidden to speak their native tongue. The three girls - aged 8, 11 and 14 managed to escape from the settlement's repressive conditions and brutal treatment. Barefoot, without provisions or maps, they set out to find the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it passed near their home in the north.

Tracked by Native Police and search planes, they hid in terror, surviving on bush tucker, desperate to return to the world they knew.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers, please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.

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