Author: GREEN, Neville & AGUIAR, Susan.
Title: Far From Home: Aboriginal Prisoners of Rottnest Island, 1838-1931.
Description: Focus Education Services, 1997. Paperback. Some small marks to front cover, otherwise very good condition. B/W & col. photos. Identifies "...more than 3,600 Aboriginal prisoners who served time on Rottnest Island. SOme were associated with historic events such as the Battle of Pinjarra (1834), the Fying Foam massacre (1868), the Jandamarra uprising in the Kimberley (1892-94) and the Forrest River massacre (1926)...Accompanying the biographical listing...is a historical account of the Rottnest establishment and prison life..." 360pp. ISBN 9780994211941.

Keywords: indigenous australia australian aborigine aboriginal 19th nineteenth 20th twewntieth century history rottnest island west social sociology anthropology