Description
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 children removed from their families. Barefoot, without provisions or maps, tracked by Native Police and search planes, the girls followed the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it would lead them home.
Their journey - longer than many of the celebrated treks of recognised explorers - reveals a past more cruel than we could ever imagine.
Author: Doris (Nugi Garimara) Pilkington
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Published: 05/30/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780702265976
ISBN10: 0702265977
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- History | Australia & New Zealand | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social