Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn

Name: Daisy Bates in the Desert By Julia Blackburn
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Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn

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In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia.

In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy.

Daisy Bates in the Desert Summary

Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn

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.

Daisy Bates in the Desert Reviews

She 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 *

About Julia Blackburn

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.

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GOR002851209

ISBN 13

9780099752219

ISBN 10

0099752212

Title

Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn

Author

Julia Blackburn

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

19970911

Number of pages

240

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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