Desert queen
Subtitle: the many lives and loves of Daisy Bates
By: Susanna De Vries.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pymble, Sydney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780732282431
Subjects: Bates, Daisy, -- 1861-1951; Bates, Daisy, -- 1861-1951 -- Marriage; Morant, Breaker, -- 1864?-1902; Women ethnologists -- Australia -- Biography; Ethnologists -- Australia -- Biography; Women travelers -- Australia -- Biography; Women immigrants -- Australia -- Biography; Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs; Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions; Polygamy -- Australia -- Case studies
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Description: "Born into modest circumstances in Ireland in 1859 and orphaned by the age of six, Daisy Bates' prospects were dim. But through strength of will she pulled herself up to become governess, wife, mother, journalist, intrepid traveller and one of Australia's most controversial ethnographers. The mistress of reinvention, once in Australia, Daisy was able to pass herself off as a member of the aristocracy. Marriage followed - first to the young Breaker Morant, then bigamously to two other husbands. But 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: Includes bibliographical references.