Desert Queen the Many Lives and Loves of (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780732282431)

In the 1890s, when a woman's role was seen as marrying well and raising a family, Daisy Bates reinvented herself from humble governess to heiress-traveller and 'woman of science'. She would become one of the best-known and most controversial ethnologists in history, and one of the fi rst people to put Aboriginal culture on the map. Born into tough circumstances, Daisy's prospects were dim; her father an alcoholic bootmaker, her mother dying of consumption when Daisy was only four years old. through sheer strength of will, young Daisy overcame her miserable start, and in 1883 she migrated to Australia with a boatload of orphans, passing herself off as an heiress who taught for fun. Marriage followed - first with the young Breaker Morant, then bigamously with two other husbands. For decades she led a double life. But who was the real Daisy Bates? While other biographies have presented her as a saint, historian Susanna de Vries gives readers a more complex portrait of the 'Queen of the Never Never'.

Author: Susanna de Vries
ISBN-10: 0732282438
ISBN-13: 9780732282431
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pty Ltd
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d