Missionaries, Madness and Miracles vol 2: The beginnings by Robert J Kempe

Missionaries, Madness and Miracles vol 2: The beginnings by Robert J KempeMissionaries, Madness and Miracles tells the intriguing but often tragic tale of the first missionaries Hermann Kempe, Wilhelm Schwarz and Louis Schulze who established the Hermannsburg mission (now called Ntaria), in Central Australia. The 20 month journey from the Barossa to the Finke River by Kempe and Schwarz and their companions is the stuff of legend. But Kempe's great grandson Bob Kempe, assisted by the marvellous translation work of Dr Vic

Anco and Duramboi are the names of just three young shipwreck survivors and convict escapees who were given refuge by Indigenous communities during the nineteenth century

Silverman talks to the people who are already living with the real-life consequences of the political revolution underway

Her saviour and her downfall

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with their language born far away