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Alternative title: Ten Hours in a Lifetime : Nancy de Vries' Journey Home.
Note: Collaborative authors: Gaynor Macdonald, Jane Mears, and Anna Nettheim.
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 One Life, Two Stories: Nancy de Vries' Journey Home
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'One Life, Two Stories: Nancy de Vries' Journey Home details the events of Nancy's life - from her forced separation from her mother when she was 18 months old, to becoming the public face of Stolen Generation in 1997.' (Source: University of Western Sydney website www.uws.edu.au)

Notes

  • The book begins with Nancy’s speech in 1997, as she acknowledged the State Government's apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia in a ceremony at the NSW Legislative Assembly.
  • Foreword by Professor Janice Reid, Vice Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney.
  • Includes bibliography

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Darlington Press , 2012 .
      image of person or book cover 4354455700786678671.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: ix 196p.
      Description: col. illus.facsims., ports.
      ISBN: 9781921364259 (pbk)

Works about this Work

[Review] One Life, Two Stories : Nancy De Vries' Journey Home Victoria L. Grieves , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 4 no. 1-2 2013; (p. 197-200)

— Review of One Life, Two Stories: Nancy de Vries' Journey Home Nancy De Vries , 2012 single work autobiography
Grieves 'recommends this book as an important development to the ways in which stories of the Stolen Generations continue to contribute to ongoing ideas of the importance of particular freedom for all people.'
[Review] One Life, Two Stories : Nancy De Vries' Journey Home Victoria L. Grieves , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 4 no. 1-2 2013; (p. 197-200)

— Review of One Life, Two Stories: Nancy de Vries' Journey Home Nancy De Vries , 2012 single work autobiography
Grieves 'recommends this book as an important development to the ways in which stories of the Stolen Generations continue to contribute to ongoing ideas of the importance of particular freedom for all people.'
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