num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: Daisy Bates in the Desert
titlecomplete: Daisy Bates in the Desert
genres: Australia, Biography, Travel, Womens, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 191
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random