Rabbit-proof fence
Main Author: | Pilkington, Doris, 1937- |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Hyperion,
[2002]
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Subjects: |
Item Description: |
"Miramax books." "The true story of one of the greatest escapes of all time"--Cover. Author's Aboriginal name is Nugi Garimara. Originally published by University of Queensland Press. |
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Physical Description: |
xiv, 136 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 136). |
ISBN: |
0786887842 (pbk.) |
Author Notes: |
Her book, Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter, won the 1990 David Unaipon Award for unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, which was published in 1991. Her 1996 book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, is the story of her mother and two other Aboriginal girls who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement and traveled for nine weeks to return to their family. It was later made into a 2002 film called Rabbit-Proof Fence. The sequel, Under the Windamarra Tree, continues her mother's story into adulthood. Pilkington Garimara died of ovarian cancer on April 10, 2014 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) |