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"La vie de Daisy Bates, une excentrique qui quitta son Irlande natale en 1913, à l'âge de 54 ans, pour s'installer dans les sables rouges du désert australien, parmi les Aborigènes."
"A portrait of a middle-aged Irishwoman who spent nearly thirty years living in the deserts of South Australia among the Aborigines of the outback."
"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. She left a detailed record of her life in her letters, her published articles, her book The Passing of the Aborigines, and in notes scribbled on paper bags, old railway timetables, and even scraps of newspaper. But very little of what this strange woman tells about herself is true. For her there were no boundaries separating experience from imagination; she inhabited a world filled with events that could not have taken place, with people she had never met. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Mrs. Bates says she was most happy. There are meetings with the aborigines and whites who knew her or about her, and slowly the facts of her life are allowed to emerge. But what makes this book so extraordinary is the way that, almost imperceptibly, the author fuses her own imagination and experience with that of Daisy Bates, until she seems to be recalling this other life as if it were her own, until she is able to bring us the feeling of sitting in a tent near a railway line, staring out across a red desert, where the boundary between experience and imagination disappears. This magical, absorbing new book by the acclaimed author of The Emperor's Last Island confirms Julia Blackburn as one of Britain's most original and talented writers. - Jacket flap."
"In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez."
"Romanbiografie van een Anglo-Ierse vrouw, die als weldoenster en amateur-antropologe een kleine vijftig jaar doorbracht onder de aboriginals in de Zuidaustralische woestijn."

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"Biography"
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"Belletristische Darstellung"

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"Daisy Bates i ørkenen"@da
"Daisy Bates in der Wüste"
"Daisy Bates i ørkenen"
"El Desierto de Daisy Bates : había una vez una mujer que vivía"
"Daisy et les aborigènes"
"Daisy Bates in the desert"@en
"Daisy Bates in the desert"
"Daisy Bates in the desert : a woman's life among the Aborigines"@en
"Daisy Bates in the Desert A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines"@en
"Daisy Bates in the desert a woman's life among the aborigines"@en
"El Desierto de Daisy Bates"@ca
"Daisy Bates nel deserto : tra gli aborigeni di passaggio"
"Daisy Bates nel deserto : tra gli aborigeni di passaggio"@it
"El desierto de Daisy Bates"
"El desierto de Daisy Bates"@es
"Droomtijd : het leven van een vrouwelijke avonturier"
"Daisy Bates in der Wüste eine Frau bei den Aborigines"
"Daisy Bates in der wüste"

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