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• Catherine Oliver

  Russell Beazley is an absolutely extraordinary, joyous person who would never agree to be called that! He has dedicated his life to the service of God and is living proof of his steadfast faith. This book, which traces his and his wife Ruth's lives as establishment missionaries in the Top End of Australia from 1947 - 1968, is not only a testimony to a great couple but is a witness to a part of Australian history that can never exist again. Russell and Ruth brought Western agriculture, timber felling and milling, nursing, religion and education to meet the Indigenous communities who met and worked with them in total cooperative harmony. The tribal elders willingly gave rare permission for personal photos taken by the couple to be reproduced in this autobiography: evidence of the remarkable bond that sprang up between them. The result is an outstanding and historic photographic record of life in Arnhem Land as Russell and Ruth knew it.
  
  On moving to Darwin, this dynamic duo did not retire but lit up the Salvation Army there with many innovative schemes for the community.
  Reading of their lives; always fired up in the service of God, is motivating and inspiring. Russell is still sprightly at 95 and takes an active interest in his family particularly, and everything around him.

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