The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia - Couverture rigide

Bates, Daisy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849020493 ISBN 13 : 9781849020497

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Daisy Bates, amateur anthrolopogist and officially designated "Protector of Aboriginies" was well qualified to write this classic on the Aboriginals of Australia.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Bates devoted more than 35 years of her life to studying Aboriginal life, history, culture, rites, beliefs and customs. Living in a tent in small settlements from Western Australia to the edges of the Nullarbor Plain. She researched and wrote millions of words on the subject. She also worked tirelessly for Aboriginal welfare, setting up camps to feed, clothe and nurse the transient population, drawing on her own income and inheritance to meet the needs of the aged. In spite of her fascination with their way of life, Bates was convinced that the Australian Aborigines were a dying race and that her mission was to record as much as she could about them before they disappeared.Her personal life was unconventional. She was said to have worn pistols even in her old age and to have been quite prepared to use them to threaten police when she caught them mistreating 'her' Aborigines. She was also famed for her strict lifelong adherence to Edwardian fashion, including boots, gloves and a veil.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Benediction Classics
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849020493
• ISBN 13: 9781849020497
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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