Bluestocking in Patagonia: Mary Gilmore's Quest for Love and Utopia at the World's End

by Anne Whitehead

A century ago, in a bizarre social experiment, a band of 500 ordinary Australians sailed out to found a socialist Utopia in Paraguay. One of them was a red-headed schoolteacher - the intrepid Mary Cameron. In a remarkable blend of biography and travel writing Anne Whitehead follows in her footsteps and brings to life a testing time spent in one of the harshest places on earth - a coming of age and a love story. Mary Cameron was self-confident, an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186197504X
• ISBN13: 9781861975041
• Release Date: January 1804
• Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.