Grand Experiment, The: Two Boys, Two Cultures

Colourful, and tragic, story of two young Aboriginal boys in the 1850’s who leave their tribe. In 1848, Father Salvado Rosendo, a Spanish missionary in Western Australia, announced what he called a ‘grand experiment of the civilisation of the Aborigines…on a scale that has never yet been attempted in this part of the world’. This is a remarkable – and timely – book. On the one hand it is a colourful detective story of research through the archives and libraries of Australia, France, Italy and the Vatican – and on the other it very much part of the whole story of the ‘stolen generations’.
xi, 221 p. ; 21 cm. #0721
Conaci. | Dirimera. | Salvado, Rosendo, 1814-1900. | Benedictines — Missions — Western Australia — New Norcia — History. | New Norcia (W.A.) | Children, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia. | Children, Aboriginal Australian — Italy — Cava. | Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50) | Religions – Christianity – Missions. | Child welfare – Child / parent separation – Stolen generations. | Religions – Christianity – Catholic Church. | France. | Great Britain. | New Norcia (SW WA SH50-10) | Italy.