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Sort of a Place Like Home
by Susan Maushart
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- About the Book
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Set amongst the low scrub of the Mogumber sand plain north of Perth, the Moore River Native Settlement was, for thirty years, ‘sort of a place like home’ for thousands of Aboriginal people. Alternately sanctuary, work camp, orphanage, prison and rural idyll, the settlement was part of a bold social experiment by the Chief Protector of Aborigines A O Neville, the aim of which was nothing less than the total eradication of a race and a culture. Making extensive and imaginative use of oral resources and hitherto unseen documents, Susan Maushart paints a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of Moore River inmates. She documents the appalling bureaucratic incompetence, official indifference and occasional outright brutality that made Moore River notorious.
- Categories
- Indigenous Writing, Current Affairs, Culture & Social History, History, Award Winning
- Publication Year
- 1993, 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- Awards
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Winner, Adelaide Festival Non-fiction Award, 1994
Short listed, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 1994 - ISBN11
- 1 92073 112 1
- ISBN13
- 9 781920 731120
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- C Format (230 x 152mm)
- Pages
- 368
- Height x Width mm
- 230 x 150
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Wilderness Society Award
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