by Julia Blackburn · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439703099
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«El desierto de Daisy Bates» is the biography written by Julia Blackburn, published by Mondadori in paperback (242 pages, in Spanish).
Julia Blackburn reconstructs the life of Daisy Bates, an Irish woman who in 1885, at just over twenty, travels to Australia determined to take charge of her future. Settled in the desert, among Aboriginal communities, she reinvents herself and adopts her own way of life, between the glow of the dunes and the memory of the woman who wanted to escape a gray existence.
The edition includes translation and preface by Rosa Regás and is part of the collection «Las mil y una voces»; the original title is Daisy Bates in the desert.
For readers of biographies and stories of personal reinvention, with the Australian desert as the setting.
Julia Blackburn is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn and artist Rosalie de Meric.
