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This is the memoir of a woman who grew up on an Australian sheep farm and would go on to become the first woman president of Smith College. I started this book expecting to read a story about the Australian outback and got that--and a lot more. Yes, the picture of growing up on a isolated sheep "sta...
Read from August 03, 2012 to August 08, 2013 — I own a copy This is a book I bought ages ago, and had dipped in and sampled parts of it over time. But that meant that I'd never actually finished the whole thing, cover to cover. So this time through I started from the beginning and went through it ...
Dedication: For JohnOpening: Within hours of my arrival in September 1960, New York astonished and delighted me. The astonishment was instant.
I wasn't passionately underwhelmed, just largely disinterested. Few specifics to latch on to here; it felt like a chronological recitation rather than compelling storytelling. Memoir is not really my favorite, though, so I'm not the target audience.
A fantastic and engaging memoir showing how Jill Ker Conway's early years on the sheep farm in Coorain, Australia helped shape her into the academic she later became here in the United States.This book starts off beautifully with in depth descriptions of the harsh Australian outback, a place I've ne...
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