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Core of My Heart, My Country
Maggie Mackellar
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Description for Core of My Heart, My Country
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations, maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 1MBF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 315.
In this passionate book, Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience.
In this passionate book, Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522851373
SKU
V9780522851373
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-39
About Maggie Mackellar
Maggie MacKellar lectures in Australian and cross-cultural comparative history at the University of Sydney. In 1996 she spent three months hiking, camping and kayaking in the Alaskan wilderness with the National Outdoor Leadership School, which provided the inspiration for this book. She lives in Sydney with her two children. Core of My Heart, My Country is ... Read more
Reviews for Core of My Heart, My Country
Journeying between past and present, Maggie MacKellar explores the relationship between sense of the self and the sense of place. Her stories of women and the land in Canada and Australia are perceptively and movingly told. Brenda Niall