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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
- Narrated by: Rachael Maza
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometer walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, north of Perth. Here Aboriginal children were instructed in the ways of white society and forbidden to speak their native tongue.
The three girls—aged 8, 11 and 14—managed to escape from the settlement's repressive conditions and brutal treatment. Barefoot, without provisions or maps, they set out to find the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it passed near their home in the north. Tracked by Native Police and search planes, they hid in terror, surviving on bush tucker, desperate to return to the world they knew.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-2022
excellent!
this story is fantastic. an incredible tribute to the family and absolutely incredible account of events that these young girls went through to get home. I've watched the movie and listening to the book was so much better, so detailed and so well written. this would have to be one of my favourite stories of all time. makes you appreciate the freedom we have and how much these girls fought for theirs and their family. awesome! 10/10, inspiring.
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- Anonymon
- 12-07-2023
Great story/narrator
What a story. Hard to believe they managed. So much shame on the authorities in those days.
Just dreadful to think the Native people were treated so despicably.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-10-2021
Absolute WOW!
it's such an inspirational true story, how these young girls have guts and glory. I had listened to it over and over again, what a courage!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-11-2024
Amazing story
What a treat to listen to this incredible book. The narrator was pure magic to listen to. Highly recommend
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- Vicky
- 04-11-2021
What a feat
Wonderfully read. This is an amazing story of endurance, determination, knowledge of environment for survival. On the other hand it is also a story of history which is not complimentary. I learned much from this.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2023
I wish I read it sooner
I thought this would be a hard read but it is so engaging and uplifting
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- Mr Jonathan L Coles
- 09-01-2023
An important true story, well told
Hard to believe things like this happened so recently. It was would be an amazing travel and survival story even without this aspect.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-06-2023
Beautiful sad story
A real education in the plight of the aboriginal people in the 1930s Australian outback
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