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The road from Coorain : an Austrailian memoir

The biography of Jill Ker Conway, tracing her experiences growing up on a property in outback NSW, the destruction of the property through drought, and her adaptation to city life in Sydney.

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  • "The biography of Jill Ker Conway, tracing her experiences growing up on a property in outback NSW, the destruction of the property through drought, and her adaptation to city life in Sydney."@en
  • "Autobiography of Jill Ker Conway's journey from a girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College)."@en
  • "This beautifully written narrative of Conway's journey from a girlhood on an isolated sheep - farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College) is both new and universal. If few of us have known an eight-year drought in New South Wales, many of us have felt the despair of an ambitious young woman facing a edstrained female destiny. This book, an extraordinarily gripping and inspiring work, will take its place as one of the few heroic stories of childhood."@en
  • "Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation of the Australian landscape."@en
  • "Jill ker Conway grew up on a sheep station in Western New South Wales. When her brothers were away at boarding school she became her father's station hand until drought destroyed her parent's dream. This is an account of her long journey to independence."
  • "The memoirs of Jill Conway and her journey into adulthood from a 30,000 acre sheep ranch in Coorain, Australia, to America where she became the first woman president of Smith College."
  • "The memoirs of Jill Conway and her journey into adulthood from a 30,000 acre sheep ranch in Coorain, Australia, to America where she became the first woman president of Smith College."@en
  • "A woman of intellect and ambition describes growing up on an Australian ranch, coping with her father's death and her mother's depression, her intellectual awakening at the university, and her path to becoming Smith College's first woman president."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"
  • "Autobiographie"

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  • "The road from Coorain [L]"
  • "ha-Ofeḳ tamid itanu, masaʻ mi-Ḳorain : G'il Ḳer Ḳonṿai ; me-Anglit Tsilah Elʻazar"
  • "The road from Coorain : [in the tradition of my Brilliant Career - a women's exquisitely clear-sighted memoir of growing up Australian]"
  • "The road from coorain"
  • "The road from Coorain : an Austrailian memoir"@en
  • "The Road from Coorain"
  • "Road from Coorain"@en
  • "Road from Coorain"
  • "The road from Coorain : an Australian memoir"@en
  • "Harukanaru daichi Kūrein : Ōsutoraria busshu kara no tabidachi"
  • "はるかなる大地クーレイン : オーストラリア・ブッシュからの旅立ち"
  • "Harukanaru daichi kūrein"@ja
  • "The road from Coorain"
  • "The road from Coorain"@en

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