The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

The Road From Coorain is the beautifully written narrative of Jill Ker Conway's journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College).

A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish EnglishI've been several times to Australia; this book was the most rewarding of all -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The Road from Coorain is the work of a writer who relentlessly tugs at the cultural fences around her until they collapse, leaving her solitary under an immense Australian sky, enlarged to herself at least * New York Times Book Review *
This book, an extraordinarily gripping and inspiring work, will take place as one of the few heroic stories of girlhood * Carolyn Heilbrun *
Immensely readable, elegant and well-crafted * Sydney Morning Herald *

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her PhD from Havard University in 1969. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto and was Vice President there before serving in 1975 and fro the next ten years as President of Smith College. Since 1985 she has been Visiting Scholar and Professor in MIT's Programme in Science, Technology and Society, and now lives with her husband in Milton, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780749398941
ISBN 10	0749398949
Titel	The Road From Coorain
Autor	Jill Ker Conway
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	1992-09-03
Seitenanzahl	256
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