The book is based on interviews with Molly and Daisy, newspaper reports and material from the files of the infamous WA Chief Protector of Aborigines, AO Neville. The author, whose European and Aboriginal names you may see on the cover above, was the daughter of Molly, the heroine of this story. Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (1940) There, too, are Maudie and Nellie, the two little half-caste girls that, having been taken south by boat to the Moore River Settlement near Perth, never having seen a map in their lives, ran away the first night and found their way back across 1,500 miles of unknown desert. Barefoot, without provisions or maps, tracked by Native Police and search planes, the girls followed the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it would lead them home. Aged 8, 11 and 14, they escaped the confinement of a government institution for Aboriginal children removed from their families. In 1931 Molly led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk across remote Western Australia.
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