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The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Australia's Child Migrants.
by Hill, David
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1741666848
- ISBN 13
- 9781741666847
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney, North Sydney: Random House, 2007. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, edges faintly foxed, minor edgewear. 338 pp. In 1959, the the mother of David Hill - a poor single parent living in England reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School near Molong in New South Wales. She was told they would have a better education. From 1938 to 1974 thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairbridge to solve the problem of child poverty in Britain, while at the same time populating the colony. This book tells their stories from the bizarre luxury of the voyage out to Australia to the harsh reality of their daily lives in the school, and the struggles after they left. This remarkable book is both a tribute to the children who were betrayed by an ideal that went wrong and a compelling account of an extraordinary episode in British-Australian history.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13733
- Title
- The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Australia's Child Migrants.
- Author
- Hill, David
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1741666848
- ISBN 13
- 9781741666847
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, North Sydney
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- australian biography, families, childhood, education, schools, fairbridge, australian history, migrant children, rural, britain, new south wales (nsw), molong
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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- Poor
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- Reprint
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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