[PDF] Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence eBook

Author : Doris Pilkington
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0702252050

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This extraordinary story of courage and faith 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 dictated that these girls be taken from their kin and their homes in order to be made white. 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. The girls were not even allowed to speak their language. Of all the journeys made since white people set foot on Australian soil, the journey made by these girls born of Aboriginal mothers and white fathers speaks something to everyone.

Author : Doris Pilkington Garimara
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194791441

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Word count 10,600

Author : Chantel Acevedo
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609452623

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Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money—she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora—and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell a story so that eight women can keep both hope and themselves alive. Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest hurricanes in recorded history, is bearing down on the island. Seven women have been evacuated from their homes and herded into the former governor's mansion, where they are watched over by another woman, a young soldier of Castro's new Cuba named Ofelia. Outside the storm is raging and the floodwaters are rising. In a single room on the top floor of the governor's mansion, Maria Sirena begins to tell the incredible story of her childhood during Cuba's Third War of Independence; of her father Augustin, a ferocious rebel; of her mother, Lulu, an astonishing woman who fought, loved, dreamed, and suffered as fiercely as her husband. Stories, however, have a way of taking on a life of their own, and, swept up by her story's momentum, Maria Sirena will reveal more about herself than she or anyone ever expected. Chantel Acevedo's The Distant Marvels has the epic scope of a contemporary Gone with the Wind and a faith in the power of storytelling equal to Martel's Life of Pi. It is a family saga, a love story, a stunning historical account of the struggle against oppressors, and a long tender plea for forgiveness. The Distant Marvels is, finally, a life-affirming novel about love that lasts a lifetime and the very art of storytelling itself.

Author : Doris Pilkington
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780702233081

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Doris Pilkington Garimara was born on traditional birthing ground under the wintamarra tree. Her life in the Mardu camp was disrupted when as a three-year-old she was taken by the authorities to live within the confines of Moore River Native Settlement. Her remarkable story follows on from the courageous journey of her mother Molly Craig, made legendary in the recently released film, 'Rabbit-Proof Fence'.

Author : Ruby Langford Ginibi
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780702235955

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Ruby Langford Ginibi's bestselling first book is now back in print.With sales of over 30,000 copies since publication in 1988, Don't Take Your Love to Town is now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. It has been set for HSC over a number of years and is one of the most important Indigenous life stories to be published in Australia.Ruby Langford Ginibi is a remarkable woman whose sense of humour has endured through all the hardships she has experienced. Her first volume of memoir is a story of extraordinary courage in the face of poverty and tragedy. She writes about the changing ways of life in Aboriginal communities - rural and urban; the disintegration of traditional lifestyles and the sustaining energy that has come from the renewal of Aboriginal culture in recent years.As a tribute to her life and work, this rejacketed edition of Don't Take Your Love to Town is being published to coincide with Ruby's new memoir, All My Mob.

Author : Terry Walker
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Murder
ISBN : 9780859051897

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Describes the murder of Louis J. Carron also known as Leslie George Brown by Snowy Rowles (real name John Thomas Smith) using a method described by the writer Arthur Upfield who was in the process of writing his novel The Sands of Windee. Details the police investigation, the evidence, the trial and its aftermath. Snowy Rowles was hanged.

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547420293

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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Author : Alex Miller
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781741141467

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Winner of the 2003 Miles Franklin Award. A superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation.

Author : Davina McCall
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1409157660

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'Hi, my name is Davina, and I'm a sugar addict . . .' Davina McCall loves a challenge. And giving up sugar has been one of her toughest yet. In this beautiful cookbook, Davina shares her favourite super-healthy recipes that have helped her kick the sugar habit and cut out junk food for good. These recipes: *are easy to make but taste amazing *contain the foods that help you look and feel great *have no long lists of scary, hard-to-find ingredients This is real food for real life! 5 WEEKS TO SUGAR-FREE also includes a 5 week meal planner that works towards curbing sweet cravings and cutting out all processed foods. Davina is no guru, she's one of us, so her plan also includes pudding recipes that help the most sweet-toothed chocoholic kick the added sugar habit. Simple, delicious and brimming with flavour, these recipes take the faff out of sugar-free!

Author : Jack Davis
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Aboriginal Australians - The early life of poet and playwright, Jack Davis.