Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
First Nations Classics
$16.99
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2023
Summary
A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage: three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara.
This is the true account of Nugi Garimara’s mother, Molly, made legendary by the film Rabbit-Proof Fence.
In 1931 Molly led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1600-kilometre walk across remote Western Australia. Aged eight, eleven and fourteen, they escaped the confinement of a government institution for Aboriginal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702265976 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0702265977 |
| Author: | Doris |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
‘This is a marvellous adventure story and thriller, celebrating courage and the resilience of the human heart.’ Phillip Noyce, director of the film ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’
Doris
Tara June Winch is an Australian (Wiradjuri) writer based in France. She was named as one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists for her first novel, Swallow the Air. She has gone on to win numerous Australian literary awards, and in 2009 she received the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protege Award.
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