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Desert queen : the many lives and loves of Daisy Bates / Susanna De Vries
Bib ID 4201794
Format BookBook
Author De Vries, Susanna
Description Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 
294 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm. 
ISBN 9780732282431 (pbk.) : 
Summary

"Born into modest circumstances in Ireland in 1859 and orphaned by the age of six, Daisy Bates' pulled herself up to become governess, wife, mother, journalist, intrepid traveller and one of Australia's most controversial ethnographers. Her lack of convention went deeper than her private life; at a time when white Australia mostly turned its back on indigenous Australians, Daisy set out to study desert Aborigines and document their culture. She would eventually spend 16 years living in a tent in outback Australia tending and documenting desert tribes."--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Bibliography: p. 277-294.

Subjects Bates, Daisy, - 1859-1951.  |  Women anthropologists - Australia - Biography.  |  Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs.  |  Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions.
Available From HarperCollins Publishers, 25 Ryde Road, Pymble NSW 2073 
Details Collect From
NL 301.092 B329D
Copy: NL pbk
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
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N 301.092 B329D
Copy: N pbk
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
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