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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
ISBN-100702233552
ISBN-139780702233555
eBay Product ID (ePID)169841862
Product Key Features
Book TitleFollow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Number of Pages156 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Indigenous Studies, Australia & New Zealand
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDoris Pilkington
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.3 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal823
SynopsisThis is an extraordinary story of courage and faith. It is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy deemed these girls were taken from their kin and their land in order to be made white. Never having seen the ocean before, the three girls' experience of transportation by boat to the settlement was tormenting. But their torment was just beginning. Settlement life was unbearable with its chains and padlocks, barred windows, hard cold beds and horrible food. Solitary confinement was doled out as regular punishment. They were not even allowed to speak their language. Of all the journeys made since white people set foot on Australian soil, the 1931 journey made by these girls born of Aboriginal mothers and white fathers speaks something to us all., 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.
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- Dec 29, 2020
A remarkable tale
It is a compelling read about how some aboriginal girls escaped from a settlement, to which they had been taken against their and their parents' wishes. They managed to return by - mostly walking - traveling over 1000 miles and hiding from the Australian deputies who were searching for them. It reveals some compassion on the part of the searchers, who were concerned both with the girls as fugitives and the girls as in potential danger. But all in all, as searing a tale of white society tearing indigenous children away from parents as is the tale of this occurring in the US. With the same predictable results of disruption of a way of life and soul searing consequences to the children.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Nov 22, 2017
Book
Thought I was ordering the CD, but enjoyed the book anyway. Had seen the movie years ago and the book was just as good.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Mar 01, 2017
highly recommend
excellent book-recommendVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
