Fülszöveg
On the Victoria Plains, eighty two miles from Perth, in
a smiling valley, is hidden away a bit of old Spain.
Sir Hal Colebatch, 1929
The Benedictine Monastery of New Norcia is one of the
most interesting places in Australia. It has aimed at ele-
o I
vating the native to take his place as an integral part of
our white civilisation. It has done this — and more. It
has become a cultural oasis, and it is a monument to the
courage and foresight of its founder Bishop Salvado
and to the unswerving perseverance and leadership of
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those who have followed on.
John K. Ewers, 1936
Even to a casual motorist passing through, the settle-
ment must seem somewhat exotic: a handful of large
institutional buildings, verging on the grandiose in
architectural scale, clustered in a sparsely timbered
valley with hardly enough houses or shops around them
to constitute a town in the ordinary Australian sense of
the term.
Brother Valerian Branijf, 1984
My first impression of...
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Fülszöveg
On the Victoria Plains, eighty two miles from Perth, in
a smiling valley, is hidden away a bit of old Spain.
Sir Hal Colebatch, 1929
The Benedictine Monastery of New Norcia is one of the
most interesting places in Australia. It has aimed at ele-
o I
vating the native to take his place as an integral part of
our white civilisation. It has done this — and more. It
has become a cultural oasis, and it is a monument to the
courage and foresight of its founder Bishop Salvado
and to the unswerving perseverance and leadership of
SmS X 1
those who have followed on.
John K. Ewers, 1936
Even to a casual motorist passing through, the settle-
ment must seem somewhat exotic: a handful of large
institutional buildings, verging on the grandiose in
architectural scale, clustered in a sparsely timbered
valley with hardly enough houses or shops around them
to constitute a town in the ordinary Australian sense of
the term.
Brother Valerian Branijf, 1984
My first impression of New Norcia was that it was
A visitor, 1993
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