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Core of My Heart, My Country by Maggie MacKellar - ISBN: 9780522851373
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Tells the stories of women 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. This work 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

Women's Sense of Place and the Land in Australia and Canada

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2004

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Summary

A lyrical combination of history, memoir and contemplation, examining the lives of women settlers in Australia and Canada.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 petti…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522851373
ISBN-10:0522851371
Author:Maggie MacKellar
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 September 2004
Weight:317g
Dimensions:198mm x 137mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

“MacKellar makes terrifically vivid the often unsung strength of women, brave in their new worlds.” -Anna Funder, author, Stasiland

“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”

About The Author

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 her first book. MacKellar has since published her second book Strangers in a Foreign Land.

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