Through Silent Country [Paperback]

Carolyn Wadley Dowley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 462 pages
• Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Pr (April 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1863682813
• ISBN-13: 978-1863682817
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,936,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review by 'Good Reading Magazine', March 11, 2003

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This review is from: Through Silent Country (Paperback)

This book follows the circumstance of the forced removal, in 1921, of the Wongutha people from their their homeland in the Western Australian goldfields to Mogumber, a feared place of detention.The events are set in context, the complete picture slowly emerging through the author's own travels over the escape routes the Wongutha used, from `speakings' about the escape and related concerns, documents (officialdom's cold tone chills even now) and a `new account; by the author. This is not a dreary recitation of facts but an imaginative reconstruction of the events. The Wongutha's plight, as they face encroaching settlement and drought, is emotively drawn. Just brilliant.
Good Reading Magazine(Australia). January 2003.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Through Silent Country, October 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Through Silent Country (Paperback)

This exceptional book - which I note has just received a significant Australian history award - is the author's account of an event from 1921 in the Western Australian goldfields. Further, it is the story of what was required to uncover such history. Through Silent Country is history as it all too rarely written - emotive, gripping, full of fascinating characters, and ultimately triumphant. The 'heroes' of the tale are the Wongutha people of the Western Desert, who walk hundreds of kilometres across unknown (silent) country to return to their homes from forced exile. Loved it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Through Silent Country (Paperback)

This book is an excellent contribution to Australian history. I recommend it highly.