Great Pioneer Women Of The Outback

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 302 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: FROM THE 1800s TO THE ONSET OF WORLD WAR I, PIONEERS MAKING THEIR HOMES IN OUTBACK AUSTRALIA WERE JOINED BY THEIR WIVES, MANY OF WHOM HAD NO IDEA OF THE DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS AHEAD.These women encountered conditions which would test their resilience and resourcefulness to the utmost: relentless heat, dust and isolation; hostile wildlife; no medical facilities; and never-ending, backbreaking work.The outback was indeed no place for a lady. Yet many women with no previous experience of hardship rose to the challenge of creating homes, nursing, farming - and keeping journals, which provided a startling picture of the life they faced.Great Pioneer Women of the Outback profiles then female pioneers, from Jeannie Gunn, author of We of the Never-Never, to equally remarkable but lesser known women, such as Emma Withnell in Western Australia and Evelyn Maunsell in Queensland. Builing on the womens records and her own knowledge of Australian history, Susanne de Vries documents the grit and determination it took to build what many today would consider an extraordinary life.

ISBN: 9780732276638