'Full Circle is the remarkable and moving story of three generations of Edie Wright's family. In the early 1900s, at the age of four, Alfred Brow was taken from his mother in northern Queensland and placed in Mapoon Mission. Eventually, as a young married man employed by the mission he was sent to the far north-west Kimberley. Following the death of his wife, Ina, Alf showed resourcefulness and steely determination in keeping his family together despite great difficulties and unsympathetic government policies...' (Source: inside front cover)
Dedication:
To the memory of
my brothers,
Gregory and Dickie,
maternal grandparents,
Alfred and Ina Brown,
and paternal grandparents,
Amy (Goodji) and
Richard (Ginger) D'Antoine.
'This is a story about individuals and families that, at face value, appear to be rather ordinary—labourers, domestics, mothers, grandmothers, skippers, school children, fishermen and mechanics. But this story is anything but ordinary and their life experiences were anything but mundane: growing up without parents on a mission in far north Queensland, living on Kunmunya Mission in the Kimberley, skippering a boat along the Western Australia coast, living in Broome during the Japanese air raids, raising eleven children and fostering others, being exempted from the Act, contracting leprosy and spending time in a leprosarium. The family fished on the Fitzroy River to earn extra income, attempted to establish a community on traditional land, and were reunited with family on the other side of the continent after more than 70 years of separation.' (Introduction)
'This is a story about individuals and families that, at face value, appear to be rather ordinary—labourers, domestics, mothers, grandmothers, skippers, school children, fishermen and mechanics. But this story is anything but ordinary and their life experiences were anything but mundane: growing up without parents on a mission in far north Queensland, living on Kunmunya Mission in the Kimberley, skippering a boat along the Western Australia coast, living in Broome during the Japanese air raids, raising eleven children and fostering others, being exempted from the Act, contracting leprosy and spending time in a leprosarium. The family fished on the Fitzroy River to earn extra income, attempted to establish a community on traditional land, and were reunited with family on the other side of the continent after more than 70 years of separation.' (Introduction)
