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9780702232817
Rabbit-Proof Fence
by Pilkington, Doris
About this item
- Condition: Very Good
- Provider: JensonBooks Contact
- Provider Rating: 96%
- Ships From: Logan, UT
- Shipping: Standard
- Comments: A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in great condition. The item is complete, unmarked, and undamaged, but may show some limited signs of wear. Item works perfectly. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine is undamaged.
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780702232817
- ISBN: 0702232815
- Publication Date: 2002
- Publisher: University of Queensland Press
AUTHOR
SUMMARY
Film tie-in edition of a book first published in 1996. The movie, entitled 'Rabbit-Proof Fence', is directed by Phillip Noyce. Book is based on the true account of the author's mother Molly, who led herself and her two sisters, who had been forcibly removed from their family as part of Western Australia's 'removal policy', over 1600 kilometres along the rabbit-proof fence in order to return to their mother. Escaping the brutality of the Aboriginal Settlement, the three girls, aged 14, 11 and 8, set off without provisions or maps and travelled across half the state while being tracked by Native police and search planes. Author won the 1990 David Uniapon Award for 'Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter' and has told her own story in 'Under the Wintamarra Tree' (2002).Pilkington, Doris is the author of 'Rabbit-Proof Fence', published 2002 under ISBN 9780702232817 and ISBN 0702232815.
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