Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers
There is nothing quite like parrot pie for breakfast. First one must catch one's parrot, of course, and build the hearth to bake it, but that is all in a day's work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women spanning the age of Empire from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Almost half of them are settlers in North America and Canada, a quarter in Africa, many in Australasia and India, and the rest scattered around the globe from Egypt to Jamaica, Sarawak to Samoa, and many points inbetween. From the lowliest kitchen skivvy to ambassadors' wives, this book celebrates the emigrants who settled the wildernesses of the world in search of new and better lives. Many were lured abroad by the promise of work or fortune; some went because imperial duty called, while for others it was a most unfeminine lust for adventure that drew them away. But all faced challenges in their homes from home that were to test to the limit their spirits, their resourcefulness, even their survival.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0192880209
ISBN13:9780192880208
Release Date:August 1984
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"
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The Power behind the Pioneers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
In Parrot Pie for Breakfast, Jane Robinson opens up the entire spectrum of the early pioneer days, not just North American, but globally. She reveals through diary and correspondence the strength and power of the women who stood behind and beside their men in the quest for a better life and freedom. The treasured snippets of their words bring history alive with a newer, brighter light that spotlights the mostly forgotten role of women in the harshest of times.
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