Kultitja : memoir of an outback schoolteacher / Linda Wells.
Publisher: Port Adelaide, [South Australia] : Ginninderra Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 180 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume, "The tin can school of a remote Aboriginal community in outback Central Australia; the earthy stoic people of the desert; a young, bold adventurous woman from the south set free amidst it all. What could possibly go wrong? With humour and warmth, Linda Wells captures the joy, the wonder and the hardships of life as a schoolteacher at Mouth Allan community. She then describes the complexities of a cross-cultural desert relationship, complete with the good times and the bad, including alcoholism, domestic violence and co-dependency. They are all brought to life in this brave and heartfelt memoir. An honest and poetic account of a young woman from suburban Melbourne who went to see what she could find amid the desert and the desert people in the centre of Australia and came face to face with herself."--Back cover. | volumeISBN: 9781760411251Other title: Memoir of an outback schoolteacherSubject(s): Wells, Linda, 1962- | Country life -- Northern Territory | History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies | Occupations - Teachers | Education - Schools | Literature and stories - Juvenile | Literature and stories - Fiction - Life writing | Women teachers -- Northern Territory -- Mount Allan -- Biography | Country life -- Australia, Central | Rural schools -- Northern Territory -- Mount Allan | Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory | Women teachers | Women teachers -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Biography | Rural schools | Aboriginal Australians | Rural schools -- Northern Territory -- Mount Allan Region | Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Mount Allan Region | Women teachers -- Northern Territory -- Mount Allan Region -- Biography | Mount Allan (South Central NT SF53-09) | Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14) | Australia, Central -- Social life and customs | Australia -- Central Australia | AustralianGenre/Form: Biography | Biography. | Biographies.DDC classification: 371.10082 Summary: "The tin can school of a remote Aboriginal community in outback Central Australia; the earthy stoic people of the desert; a young, bold adventurous woman from the south set free amidst it all. What could possibly go wrong? With humour and warmth, Linda Wells captures the joy, the wonder and the hardships of life as a schoolteacher at Mouth Allan community. She then describes the complexities of a cross-cultural desert relationship, complete with the good times and the bad, including alcoholism, domestic violence and co-dependency. They are all brought to life in this brave and heartfelt memoir. An honest and poetic account of a young woman from suburban Melbourne who went to see what she could find amid the desert and the desert people in the centre of Australia and came face to face with herself."--Back cover.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"The tin can school of a remote Aboriginal community in outback Central Australia; the earthy stoic people of the desert; a young, bold adventurous woman from the south set free amidst it all. What could possibly go wrong? With humour and warmth, Linda Wells captures the joy, the wonder and the hardships of life as a schoolteacher at Mouth Allan community. She then describes the complexities of a cross-cultural desert relationship, complete with the good times and the bad, including alcoholism, domestic violence and co-dependency. They are all brought to life in this brave and heartfelt memoir. An honest and poetic account of a young woman from suburban Melbourne who went to see what she could find amid the desert and the desert people in the centre of Australia and came face to face with herself."--Back cover.
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