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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Nugi Garimara
1996, 2002, UQP, St Lucia
0702232815
133p.
The true story of three aboriginal girls removed from their families in the 1930s and taken to a native settlement where they were to be taught the European ways. They run away from the settlement and trek 1600 kilometres home following the rabbit-proof fence which runs from south to north in Western Australia.
This is an incredible story - these girls trekked further and in harsher conditions than many of our heroic European explorers. It is beautifully told too, the author is very talented.
Link to journal at bookcrossing
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