Wendy N. reviewed Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines on + 177 more book reviews
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This book is atypical for a biography--it's primarily written in first person as in an autobiography. The prose is lyrical and remote, as if we are listening to the subject--now a demented old woman--as her life flashes before her eyes. The Aboriginies are depicted casually as one would describe friends, rather than as the subject of an anthropological study. The appropriate audience for this book are people who enjoy reading poetry and will read a book for the beauty of its language rather than the character of its content.
