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Kultitja : memoir of an outback schoolteacher / Linda Wells.

By: 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.
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760411251
Other title:
  • Memoir of an outback schoolteacher
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 371.10082 23
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 371.10082 WEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68235

"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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