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Beverley Dunn

Beverley Dunn is one of Australia's most distinguished actresses. Her acclaimed work in theatre, television, radio and film has taken her all over Australia and overseas. Among her many television credits are two years in The Flying Doctors, and she also toured Australia for hit stage productions of Hotel Sorrento and A Happy and Holy Occasion, which won her a Green Room Award in 1993. She was also the narrator of White Eye by Blanche d'Alpuget, the 1994 TDK Australian Audio Book of the Year, and White Coolies by Betty Jeffrey, which was shortlisted at the Audie awards and won the Golden Ears award.

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Title:

Desert Queen

Written by:

Susanna de Vries 

Read by:

Beverley Dunn 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

9 

Duration:

10 hours 5 minutes 

Published:

March 01 2010 

Available Date:

April 28 2011 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781742018676 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; Historical 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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The many lives and loves of Daisy Bates.

In the 1890s, when a woman's role was seen as marrying well and raising a family, Daisy Bates reinvented herself from humble governess to heiress, traveller and woman of science. She would become one of the best-known and most controversial ethnologists in history, and one of the first people to put Aboriginal culture on the map. Born into tough circumstances, Daisy's prospects were dim; her father an alcoholic boot maker, her mother dying of consumption when Daisy was only four years old. Through sheer strength of will, young Daisy overcame her miserable start, and in 1883 she migrated to Australia with a boatload of orphans, passing herself off as an heiress who taught for fun. Marriage followed - first with the young Breaker Morant, then bigamously with two other husbands. For decades she led a double life. But who was the real Daisy Bates?