DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT : A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
by Blackburn, Julia
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0679744460
- ISBN 13
- 9780679744467
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower left front by spine. Biography of Irish Australian journalist, social worker and lifelong friend of Australian aboriginies Daisy May Bates (née Dwyer), (1859 - 1951). Known among the native people as 'Kabbarli' (grandmother), her life was the basis for the Margaret Sutherland opera The Young Kabbarli.
Synopsis
Julia Blackburn is the author of three books of nonfiction, Charles Waterton, The Emperor’s Last Island , and Daisy Bates in the Desert , and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions , both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in England.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008751
- Title
- DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT : A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
- Author
- Blackburn, Julia
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679744460
- ISBN 13
- 9780679744467
- Publisher
- Vintage Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Biography/Australia/Aborigines/Cultural Studies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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