Daisy Bates In The Desert

By (author): "Julia Blackburn"
Genres:Nonfiction books  History books  Travel books  Australia books  Biography books  
Publish Date: May 31st 1994
Daisy Bates In The Desert
ISBN0099752212
ISBN139780099752219
AsinDaisy Bates In The Desert
Original titleDaisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years.In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. She fuses her own imagination and experience with that of Daisy Bates, unitl she seems to be recalling this other life as it it were her own.