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Daisy Bates in the Desert
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Daisy Bates in the Desert
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Julia Blackburn
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:240 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Biographies: Historical, Political and Military Travel writing |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780099752219
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Classifications | Dewey:994.23804092 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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Imprint |
Vintage
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Publication Date |
11 September 1997 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'This is the story of a remarkable individual life, a story rendered the more peculiar and fascinating by Blackburn's graceful prose and ever-surprising vision' - The Times 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.
Author Biography
Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses.
ReviewsShe has extended the boundaries of biography with an exhilarating exercise in imaginative power and a brilliant piece of writing -- Anne Chisholm * Observer * The book is full of vivid, astonishing images -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * The Times * Brilliant... enchanting -- Jan Morris * Independent *
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