Artikeltemplate

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).

About the author

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.

Summary

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).

Foreword

The inspiring and much loved memoir which follows Jill Ker Conway’s early years from her childhood in the Australian outback, to her time in Sydney and on to America as a young woman

Report

A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish English. I've been several times to Australia; this book was the most rewarding of all John Kenneth Galbraith

Product details

• Authors: Jill K. Conway, Jill Ker Conway, Conway Jill Ker
• Publisher: KNV Besorgung
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780749398941
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9894-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 184 g
• Illustrations: 0
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; TRAVEL / General, Cultural Studies, Australia, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Travel writing