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Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn
Category: Biography
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.In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. She fu ...Show more
Thin Paths - Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
Category: Travel
This title is shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people o ...Show more
Time Song - In Search of Doggerland by Julia Blackburn
Category: History
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past- mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Songbrings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence ...Show more
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