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Core of my heart, my country : women's sense of place and the land in Australia & Canada / Maggie MacKellar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacKellar, Maggie, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--Australia--Biography.
- Women pioneers.
- Women pioneers--Canada--Biography.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Canada.
- Landscapes--Social aspects--Australia--History.
- Landscapes.
- Landscapes--Social aspects--Canada--History.
- Australia--Description and travel.
- Australia.
- Canada--Description and travel.
- Canada.
- Australia--Biography.
- Canada--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. 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. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Core of my heart, my country
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Into the wild
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Core of my heart
- Notes
- List of illustrations
- Select bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780522870688
- 0522870686
- OCLC:
- 1496394274
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