Sort Of A Place Like Home. Remembering The

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 368 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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, Sort of a Place Like Home 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 Nevilles experiment sought to destroy.

ISBN: 9781920731120