King Tide Publishing: 2 books
Bluestocking in Patagonia
Mary Gilmore's Quest for Love and Utopia at the World's End
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In the 1890s in a bizarre social experiment, a band of over 500 Australians - mostly men and just three single women - sailed to South America to create a communal Utopia, a New Australia, in the jungles of Paraguay. One of them was a red-headed schoolteacher Mary Cameron, a poet and feminist, who...
Paradise Mislaid
In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In the 1890s after a period of social unrest, a brave band of Australians sailed from Sydney to found a communal Utopia in South America. Under the charismatic journalist William Lane, over 500 settlers, including poet Mary Gilmore, created a New Australia in the Paraguayan jungle. Their hopes soon...