For the first time in one volume: the bestsellers GREAT PIONEER
WOMEN OF THE OUTBACK and HEROIC AUSTRALIAN WOMEN. Providing
inspiration for today's women, in this book of profiles, Susanna de
Vries examines what it takes to be a truly heroic Australian. Women
of grit and courage, women of integrity, resilience and
resourcefulness: the 21 individuals whose stories make up tHE
COMPLEtE BOOK OF HEROIC AUStRALIAN WOMEN were a rare breed. they
faced different tests - harshness as pioneers in outback Australia;
the turmoil of war - but when encountering adversity, even death,
each proved her mettle. From Olive King, who saved countless lives
in the war-ravaged Balkans, to Vivian Bullwinkel, who survived the
Bangka Island Massacre only to endure three tragedy-filled years in
a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, to Jeannie Gunn, who turned her
experiences of hostile outback conditions into a classic book, We
of the Never-Never, these are women who displayed extraordinary
determination in often terrible circumstances. the 21 women are:
Georgiana Molloy, Frances ('Fanny') Bussell, Elizabeth ('Bessie')
Bussell, Charlotte Cookworthy Bussell, Emma Mary Withnell, Atlanta
Hope Bradshaw, Jeannie Gunn OBE, Evelyn Maunsell, Catherine Langloh
Parker, Myrtle Rose White, Olive May Kelso King, Dr Agnes Elizabeth
Lloyd Bennett, Dr Lilian Violet Cooper, Sister Alice Elizabeth
Kitchen, Joice NanKivell Loch, Sister Sylvia Muir, Sister Vivian
Bullwinkel, Sister Joyce tweddell, Sister Betty Jeffrey, Mavis
Parkinson, and Sister Frances May Hayman.
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