First published in 1993, Sort of a Place Like Home is the award-winning study of life within the Moore River Native Settlement. Part of the bold social experiment by the "Chief Protector of Aborigines" A.O. Neville, the Western Australian settlement was for thirty years "sort of a place like home" for thousands of indigenous people. Making extensive and imaginative use of oral sources and official documents, the book creates a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of Moore River inmates, while documenting the ...
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First published in 1993, Sort of a Place Like Home is the award-winning study of life within the Moore River Native Settlement. Part of the bold social experiment by the "Chief Protector of Aborigines" A.O. Neville, the Western Australian settlement was for thirty years "sort of a place like home" for thousands of indigenous people. Making extensive and imaginative use of oral sources and official documents, the book creates a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of Moore River inmates, while documenting the appalling bureaucratic incompetence, official indifference and occasional brutality that made Moore River notorious. Surprisingly, not all the memories are bad. In the midst of the institutional gloom, determination and optimism united inmates - a testament to the human durability that Neville's experiment sought to destroy.
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Add this copy of Sort of a Place Like Home to cart. $23.30, like new condition, Sold by Marlowes Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferny Hills, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1993 by Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
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As New in None Issued jacket. 350 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. This Paints A Vivid And Intimate Picture Of The Life Experiences Of Moore River Inmates.
