'I recently learned about the passing of Mona Akbar Wilson, one of the last known descendants of an Afghan cameleer who came to Australia in the late nineteenth century. I first learned of Mona, or rather of her father, when I read Pamela Rajkowski's book Linden Girl during the summer of 1996. I came across Linden Girl while perusing my father's collection of books stacked on dusty shelves in my childhood home in Perth...' (Introduction)
'I recently learned about the passing of Mona Akbar Wilson, one of the last known descendants of an Afghan cameleer who came to Australia in the late nineteenth century. I first learned of Mona, or rather of her father, when I read Pamela Rajkowski's book Linden Girl during the summer of 1996. I came across Linden Girl while perusing my father's collection of books stacked on dusty shelves in my childhood home in Perth...' (Introduction)
