Walking with Camels
Author | : Leni Shilton |
Publisher | : Apollo Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 1742589707 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781742589701 |
Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Leni Shilton offers us a woman's exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her anthropologist husband's achievements, was a woman of integrity and a brilliant observer and connector of people in settings such as the Great Sandy Desert over many years of endurance. In this volume, Leni Shilton restores to her a voice. Walking with Camels is charged with the lovely strangeness of a re-imagined perspective: Bertha Strelhow exists here in a lyrical history that is inner, poetic, singular and deeply mysterious and we are reminded of the moving gravity of so many untold stories."--Gail Jones (Series: UWAP Poetry) [Subject: Poetry]