Daisy Bates In The Desert. A Woman's Life Among The Aborigines
by Blackburn, Julia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0679420010
- ISBN 13
- 9780679420019
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
A$28.66A$14.33
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. A hauntingly beautiful biographic account of Daisy Bates. In 1913 at the age of fifty-four Daisy Bates went to live in the desert of South Australia for nearly thirty years. It is a stunning portrait of one of the world's most eccentric, lonely and worthwhile women. Daisy Bates resembles Isak Dinesen or Dianne Fossey.... she gave up everything to live with the Aborigines for she loved their wilderness and their land. Daisy Bates was a notorious liar and the author treats this flaw in a loving way. Small pale-colour stain to ffep. A bright book in a bright price-clipped dust jacket.. ISBN: 0-679-42001-0. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Women Australia Biography + Australia Biography + Australian Aborigines + Aborigines Social Life and Customs + Australian Aborigines Social Conditions + Daisy Bates 1861-1951. Catalogs: Autobiography/Biography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B1233
- Title
- Daisy Bates In The Desert. A Woman's Life Among The Aborigines
- Author
- Blackburn, Julia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679420010
- ISBN 13
- 9780679420019
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography/Biography;
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