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1.Land of Wait and Wonder
- A History of the Kimberley (roughly) 1883 to 1983
- 338 pages
2. Missiological Contribution Made by
Women in the Kimberley/i>
- 316 pages
3.
Encounter, The Past and Future of Remote Kimberley
- 142 pages
4.
Nothing is Wasted in the Kingdom of God: Part One
- 231 pages
5. 5
Nothing is Wasted in the Kingdom of God: Part Two
- 231 pages
6. The Writing on the Wall,
Father Duncan McNab, 1820-1896
A4 size, 250 pgs
7. Emo
and San Salvadore, Book One
A4 size, 254 pgs
8.
Emo and San Salvadore, Book Two
A4 size, 300 pgs
9. This is Your Place
A5 size, 166 pgs (1990)
10. This is Your Place -
Pictures
Part One
A5 size, photos of the mission (2001)
11. This is Your Place -
Pictures
Part Two
A5 size, photos of the mission (2001)
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This web site was started soon after Brigida Nailon CSB went into a nursing home towards the end of 2020.
Until then Brigida was continuing in her efforts to write up on the history of the Kimberley.
She was trying to improve her Spanish so she could translate more letters from Emo, a Spanish priest about whom she had
already compiled two lengthy books (with translating help for example, from Sr Ethna Mullock CSB).
Some of the historical material that Brigida wrote was done prior to the invention of the internet
and formatting tools such as the pdf. Some of the books reproduced here were in a very early formt, in fact
with no formatting at all. The process of changing the books over to their present form incurred spelling mistakes such as
"The"
being spelt as "Th11" etc and some such mistakes may still be in the text. However the reader should note that such
mistakes are not in the original documents. Hopefully the names of people have been reproduced accurately. In the
original books great pains were taken to be faithful to the original sources which come from a wide range of places
including Diocesan Archives and the first-hand stories of aboriginal people etc.
Copyright of the books continues to belong to Brigida and the Brigidine sisters. Or, in the case of archives it would
belong to the owners of the archives
Around the early 1980's Brigida spent a considerable time working on a history of the Kimberley called "Land of Wait and
Wonder". At the time this was not published. Then ten years later it was used as a major resource for a smaller
publication and
acknowledgement was made of the use of Brigida's research.
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Brigida's more extensive "History of the Kimberley"
("Land of Wait and Wonder") via this web site is the first time this material
has been fully brought into the light of day. The same holds for her thesis.
The other books have already been published in hard copy form and have been sold and given to a range of libraries
and individuals. However the collection of these books here, on this web site, enables a reader to get a much fuller view
than what would be available in the one text. For example someone such as Fr Emo who is mentioned in one book has
had his story much more fully amplified elsewhere etc.
There are themes that are developed in some books such as disinterest in the plight of aborigines which Duncan McNab
had to face. Then there are the sustained efforts of missionary groups to improve the lot of the aborigines as undertaken by
the Pallotines and the St John of God sisters. There is also an on-going theme of criticism relating to Government policies
of the day.
Some of Brigida's books, such as those about McNab and Emo, largely consist of letters. In this sense they do not
make for easy reading. Rather they provide research material for somebody else to write up "the story". She considered
that a focus on these original documents was essential if the full "story" of European impact on the Indigenous people
of the Kimberley was ever to be told.
Brigida's body of work on the history of the Kimberley has extra importance because it was about "first impact". Minimal work on this subject is available elsewhere.
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