Publication date 1996 Pages 136 pp Followed by Under the Wintamarra Tree Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian book by, published in 1996. Based on a true story, the book is a personal account of an family's experiences as members of the – the forced removal of mixed-race children from their families during the early 20th century. Illbleed Dreamcast Iso S here.

It tells the story of three young girls: (the author's mother), Daisy (Molly's sister), and their cousin Gracie, who are forcibly removed from their families, later escape from a government settlement in 1931, and then trek over 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) home by following the, a massive which crossed from north to south. The book was adapted as a film,, in 2002.

Contents • • • • Publication [ ] Doris Pilkington had spent much of her early life from the age of four at the in, the same facility the book chronicles her mother, aunt's and cousin's escape from as children. After reuniting with her family, Pilkington says she did not talk to her mother much, and she was not aware of her mother's captivity at Moore River nor the story of her escape, until her Aunt Daisy told her the story. Repeating the story at an Aboriginal family history event in, one of the attendees told Pilkington he was aware of the story and that the case was fairly well-documented. He gave her some documents and clippings which formed the factual backbone of the story on which Pilkington based a first draft. Pilkington submitted the draft to a publisher in 1985 but was told it was too much like an academic paper and that she should try her hand at writing fiction. Her first novel, Caprice, A Stockman's Daughter, won the Literary Award and was published in 1990 by the.

Pilkington then rewrote and filled out Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence following several years of interviewing her mother and aunt, and it was published in 1996.

Rabbit-Proof Fence: the Question of 'Intent' in History Article In 2002 the Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence was. Her book is called Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. Dec 9, 2009 - Author's 'real' name: Nugi Garimara. From Google books: 'In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Pilkington recalls with a searing irony one of the more farcical projects of land management in the newly federated states of Australia. In 1907 a fence 1,834 kms in length was built from the Great Southern Ocean to. Rabbit-Proof Fence: the Question of 'Intent' in History Article In 2002 the Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence was. Her book is called Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. ABOUT THE BOOK. This is the real life story of three young girls, sisters, Mollie and Gracie, and their cousin Daisy, forcibly taken from their home at Jigalong in the Little Sandy. Desert of Western Australia to the Moore River Native Settlement. This was not uncommon as it was government policy at the time to remove.

About the Book Author's 'real' name: Nugi Garimara From Google books: 'In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Pilkington recalls with a searing irony one of the more farcical projects of land management in the newly federated states of Australia. In 1907 a fence 1,834 kms in length was built from the Great Southern Ocean to the coast of the top end for the purpose of preventing rabbits invading Western Australia from the eastern states. Of course it did nothing of the sort. In fact, in a kind of carnivalesque humour, Pilkington contends that there were more rabbits on the Western Australian side of the fence than on the South Australian side. In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, however, the fence, for three young girls, is 'a symbol of love, home and security' those most coveted and most mourned entitlements for generations of stolen people. Molly, the oldest of the three and the leader of the group, succeeded in delivering the three to their homelands as she was equipped with a range of essential survival skills, those learned from her white father, an inspector on the fence, and those learned from her step-father, 'a former nomad from the desert' and an 'expert' in bushcraft.'