Daisy Bates in the Desert
  • Published: 7 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099752219
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99
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Daisy Bates in the Desert

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7 Nov 1997
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'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.
  • Published: 7 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099752219
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Julia Blackburn

Julia Blackburn is an author and scriptwriter whose radio plays include A Good Death, Betsy and Napoleon, The Need for Nonsense and The Spellbound Horses.

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Praise for Daisy Bates in the Desert

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
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