Acknowledgements

The quoted material appearing in the chapter ‘Preparations’ is from Kalumburu: The Benedictine Mission and the Aborigines, 1908–1975 by Fr Eugene Perez OSB, published by Kalumburu Benedictine Mission, 1977.

The quoted material appearing as epigraphs on page ix are from: Diesel and Dust by Midnight Oil, courtesy of Warner Bros, and Affinities by Charles Boyle, 1977, courtesy of Carcanet Press.