num_pages: 403
description: The first woman president of Smith College recalls her Australian outback childhood and her climb into North American academia
language: English
title: The Road from Coorain: Recollections of a Harsh and Beautiful Journey to Adulthood
titlecomplete: The Road from Coorain: Recollections of a Harsh and Beautiful Journey to Adulthood (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
genres: Coming Of Age, Australia, Book Club, Biography, Travel, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 13034
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award
publisher: G K Hall & Co