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Anouk Ride - Australia

Anouk Ride
Anouk Ride is a journalist and editor (including a stint with NI) who has written widely on human rights, politics and the environment. read more..

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"This moving book, a monument to painstaking research across the world, puts a whole new perspective on the long, tragic story, and ensures that it will not be forgotten."
- Canberra Times
".. like a condensed historical travelogue. You can only wonder at the likely impact this crash course in 'enculturation' would have had on the children."
- Warren Brewer, Hobart Mercury
"..a remarkable book which should take its place in Australian history. I found the subject unbearably sad but if we are to avoid more mistakes in our interactions with indigenous people we must face the pain from the past."
- Mary Philip, The Courier-Mail
"Ride...succeeds in humanising all three of her protagonists. She also paints a delicately balanced picture of the role the monks played in the Yuet people's lives, contrasting their progressivism with their paternalism; their compassion with their zeal."
- Rosemary Neill, The Australian

The Grand Experiment
Two Aboriginal boys travel three continents to follow one monk's dream

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Two boys travel three continents to follow one monk's dream, in this untold story from Australia's colonial history.

In 1848, the Spanish missionary Rosendo Salvado, founder of New Norcia Monastery in Western Australia, had an idea. He would prove that Aboriginal people could be educated and 'civilised', by taking two Nyungar boys to be schooled in Europe.

And so it was that Conaci, aged seven, and Dirimera, aged ten, left their tribe to travel by sea to the racially-divided colony of South Africa, Ireland at the beginning of its nationalist uprising, the United Kingdom in the midst of its industrial revolution, France ravaged by civil war and finally entered a monastery in Naples.

The Grand Experiment is a remarkable - and timely - book. It is a colourful detective story of research through libraries and archives across the world, and very much a beginning of the 'stolen generations' story.

135 x 210 mm, 221 pages, paperback.


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