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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
by Julia Blackburn

Her name was Daisy Bates and she was known to the Aborigines of the Australian desert as Kabbarli, "the white-skinned grandmother." She may also have been a member of the Irish gentry and the widow of Breaker Morant. But it is hard to know, since, among other things, Daisy Bates was an incorrigible liar. She meticulously recorded everything she saw and made up in the Australian outback from the songs of the kangaroo and dingo people to detailed inventories of her possessions. In Daisy Bates in the Desert, acclaimed author, Julia Blackburn uses Bates's stories as a springboard into her experience and what it might have felt like to be a middle-aged European woman starting out across a red desert, surrounded by the remnants of a dying culture.

"Like her subject, Blackburn blends fact and fiction to create a poetic version of a life that makes us feel we are seeing Aboriginal culture from Daisy Bates's own unique and peculiar perspective."
--Elle

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