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Child of the Outback

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  A must read. . . , 12/03/2003
Reviewer: Janis
So sad to see how such good intentions by the parents who served God faithfully could do unintentional damage to the children, but what a gift to be able to spread the Word to new cultures. I smiled and alternately teared-up as I read it. All missionaries at home or abroad NEED to read this fascinating book.

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  Child of the Outback , 12/06/2003
Reviewer: Helen
This is a wonderful book telling of the growing up years of a missionary child. The hardships faced as she grows older and has to part company with the parents is heartwrenching. This would be a wonderful gift to buy for someone. Once you pick it up you want to keep reading. It is well written.

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  Grace of God! , 12/08/2003
Reviewer: Kathleen Peterson
Child of the Outback lets us view a part of Australia that is known to few. Through the eyes of a child, the Aboriginal people become vivid in their complex, challenging life style. While they are finding their way toward civilization, a little girl is finding her way among them and becoming one with them to the core of her being, so much so that years later, she carries them in her heart. Most of her struggles come when she leaves this place we would call so primitive and travels to civilization with all it's loneliness and lack of caring or understanding. God's Grace permiates her every step, even before she fully realizes the fact. The book is a page-turner and a grand feat for a first-time author!

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  Inspiring Read , 12/23/2003
Reviewer: Kelly
This book follows the physical and spiritual journeys of a young child, whose forced departure from her family leads her to grow in character and in spirit. The author never forgets the people who shaped her tender years, and the instincts she learned from the Aboriginal people carries her through some extremely difficult life challenges. From the depths of darkness comes an inspirational story of courage, perseverance, and the bonds of a culture that can never be forgotten.

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  Child of the Outback , 01/02/2004
Reviewer: Patricia Pomroy
This missionary child's journey is an emotional journey for the reader. It will break your heart and bring you joy. How sad that as parents, with lovingly good intentions damage our children as they grow. However, through out this book, we realize that God's hand is on this child/woman and never leaves her alone in all the trama of growing up. In this telling of her life's story, God has used this woman in ways she never dreamed and in the process she has blossomed in God's love and grace.

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  Revealing and Honest , 01/02/2004
Reviewer: Terry Stensaas
This antecdotal accounting of the life of a child of missionary parents in the outback is so honest it makes you cry, and yet challenges the Christian reader to think about one's own life in relation to missions. In the simple and totally facinating account of her life Marilyn has revealed the heart of the aboriginal people and makes us wonder how many wonderful other people groups are out there just waiting for someone to bring to them the "good news" of Jesus. Our thanks to Marilyn for telling her story.

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  Child of the Outback , 02/09/2004
Reviewer: Cat
An incredible life story told with the kind of spirituality that truly uplifts...poignant and totally mesmerizing. I cried, I marveled, and I was inspired. Thank you, Marilyn. Can't wait for your next book!

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  Culture Shock , 09/02/2004
Reviewer: Constance Nipper
Whether you are interested in adventure, anthropology, social studies, love, miracles, survival, self-sacrifice, spirituality or zoology, Apache Junction, Arizona writer Marilyn Stewart has it all in her first book about life in the Australian Outback. Born in Seattle, in 1944, Marilyn Stewart spent her childhood in Western Australia with her missionary parents. At the age of 13 Marilyn, one of her two brothers, and her sister are sent back to the United States for schooling and to learn the social skills they will need to function as adults in society. Farmed out to separate families and schools, they struggle alone with their feelings of abandonment and lose. Marilyn Stewart’s book is an autobiography of the culture shock she experienced. She writes about the ten years she lived, thought, and spoke as an Australian aborigine, only to be ripped from a life she loved and dropped into an alien “civilized” world. Be sure to read the continuing story in her second book, "Footprints &Frangrance in the Outback."

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  Child of the Outback , 01/09/2005
Reviewer: Renee Meloche
Have you ever faced injustice in your life? Here is a story of one woman's journey as she overcomes tremendous dificulties. The daughter of missionary parents, she was raped as a child, shipped off to boarding school in Canada as a 12-year-old with little knowledge of the English language, and then sexually abused again. Marilyn bravely shares the consequences of her abuse and isolation from her family. Yet, as she looks to God for healing, her story gives us all hope as she triumphs over tremendous adversity. To those of us who are facing trials of any kind, this book will encourage, inspire, and bring you comfort.

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  Grace and Mercy , 06/24/2005
Reviewer: Betty Graffis
Once I started reading this book it was very hard to lay it down. My emotions ranged from giggles of joy at some of the situations she shared to tears of her pain with the abuse and abandonment. This lady has truly experienced God's grace and mercy. No child should ever have had to experience what she went through. She has dealt well with the repercussions she has had to deal with as a result of her childhood. The phenomenal thing about her testimony is she holds no bitterness towards those who hurt her. She gives the Lord total credit for her spiritual growth and she still has a burden and a great love for her aboriginal family.

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  Awesome! , 05/17/2007
Reviewer: Carolyn
This book written by an "MK" (missionary kid) should be read by all going to the mission field! With all of the heartbreaks and painful situations related in the book as well as the victorious situations, God uses Marilyn's talents and experiences to bring honor and glory to His name and to show us what an awesome God we serve!

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  Child of the Outback , 05/17/2007
Reviewer: Mary
This book tells of the trials and hardships that missionaries and their children go through. I had the priviledge of meeting the author and her father. Way to go Marilyn.

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  Child of the Outback , 12/08/2008
Reviewer: Linda Fossen
"Child of the Outback" is one of the most unique books I have ever read. Marilyn Stewart takes you on a whimsical journey that is filled with fascinating stories of the culture of the Aboriginal people. You will get a first-hand look at the hardships and joys of living in one of the most uninhabitable regions of the world. Sadly not even the remoteness of the Australian outback could prevent Marilyn from being sexually abused - not at the hands of the stone-age tribal people she lived with but a "missionary" who had come to "help" the people. This was just one of the many difficulties that Marilyn faced. She soon discovered the culture shock of being torn away from the people she had come to love and who had "adopted" her. This little bare-footed girl was sent to boarding school in Canada where she faced even more difficulties with language and cultural differences. You will admire Marilyn's resilient spirit as she triumphs over amazing odds. You will never forget the "Child of the Outback". A must read for any missionary kid. A very entertaining and fascinating read from an extraordinary woman!

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  heart wrenching , 11/13/2010
Reviewer: Kanga
I could not put Marilyns books down as I read with shock and horror the traumas of her life.But how God has blessed and used her.I have not met Marilyn but did spend time as a nurse in the area of which she writes and worked briefly alongside her sister and parents in latter years.The people today who live in the Outback still remember this family with love and know they really made a difference but with great cost to their own family. A must read espec for any intending or current missionaries.

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  An impressive cultural insight from both sides , 01/30/2013
Reviewer: Rosalind Beadle
Marilyn Stewart provides her audience with an evocative, honest and at times heart-wrenching account of the incredibly unique life of an MK (missionary kid) growing up on a remote Australian Aboriginal mission. Very few people in this world get the opportunity to reflect with some degree of objectivity on their own culture. Marilyn was (though not without trauma) thrown this chance and struggled through the transition of adapting to her Western cultural origins providing us with a deep insight into cultural nuances we too often take for granted. Writing about her experiences many years later, she uses these learnings to describe with brilliant skill the cultural nuances of remote Aboriginal families in the 1950s when changes on their country were forcing them to reduce their subsistent ways of living. This book is a must-read for anyone going to work in the Western Australian desert.

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