Daisy Bates in the Desert
by Julia Blackburn

List Price: $12.00
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679744460
Publisher: Vintage

Ms. Blackburn is the author of two other biographical studies, Charles Waterton and The Emperor's Last Island, an evocative account of Napoleon's exile on St. Helena, and a novel, The Book of Color.

Julia Blackburn was born in London in 1948 and received a degree from York University. Her family originally comes from Mauritius; her father is Thomas Blackburn (1916-1977), the English poet. She lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband and two children.

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