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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
by Julia Blackburn
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 1995
- PAPER
- 232 PAGES
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In this wonderfully original biography, tBlackburn recreates the life of Daisy Bates (1861-1951), who abandoned her comfortable surroundings in 1913 to live for 30 years in the wilderness. It opens memorably "There was once a woman who lived in the desert" -- setting an appropriate tone for a book which artfully combines biography, fiction and history. Blackburn consulted the archives and interviewed contemporaries to create this absorbing portrait of a fascinating character.
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