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IN BRIEF

Matthew Clayfield reviews 'The Grand Experiment' by Anouk Ride
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June 2008, no. 302

The Grand Experiment by Anouk Ride

Hachette, $25 pb, 221 pp

IN BRIEF

Matthew Clayfield reviews 'The Grand Experiment' by Anouk Ride
by
June 2008, no. 302

The story of the children Conaci and Dirimera, who were spirited away to Europe by a Benedictine missionary, Rosendo Salvado, in the mid-nineteenth century to be trained as Australia’s first indigenous monks, is arguably the first, forgotten chapter of Australia’s Stolen Generations. It is the subject of Anouk Ride’s The Grand Experiment, a compelling though problematic book, where a number of the author’s charges can also be levelled at her.

The Grand Experiment

The Grand Experiment

by Anouk Ride

Hachette, $25 pb, 221 pp

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