A Lady in a Thousand: Eliza Davies: A Biography.
by Ward, Barbara
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 064621697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780646216973
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney, Glebe: Barbara Ward / Fast Books, 1994. Paperback large octavo, very good plus condition, black & white drawings & text-photos, minimal edgewear. 128 pp. The story of an indomitable and independent woman who in the mid 1800s was a pioneer educator in Australia. Eliza Davies, a member of the Sturt desert expedition, was a unique adventurous woman whose life and career are recorded in this prize-winning biography. The author has gathered most of the material from Eliza Davies's autobiography: 'The Story of an Earnest Lifeâ. This book was winner of the Isabella Brierley Literary Award, 1994.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22081
- Title
- A Lady in a Thousand: Eliza Davies: A Biography.
- Author
- Ward, Barbara
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 064621697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780646216973
- Publisher
- Barbara Ward / Fast Books
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, Glebe
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- australian biography, australian history, exploration, explorers, education
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...