Hippy Days, Arabian Nights: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Boland, Katherine

• Book ID: 109714965
• Publisher: Wild Dingo Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780987381323

✦ Synopsis

Spanning five decades and as many continents, Hippy Days, Arabian Nights is a funny, moving and compelling story of a woman whose extraordinary life will never be summarised by the words 'could have', 'might have', or 'should have'. Whether it's following her dreams pursuing what she believes in, or chasing matters of the heart, from the outset Australian artist Katherine Boland has grabbed life by the throat and jumped in feet first. Part One: Hippy Days. One woman's experience of life in a hippy community that sprang up in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales as part of the counterculture movement––an overlooked and relatively untapped period in Australian modern history. In 1976, Katherine and her boyfriend John, like many idealistic young students of the time, abandon their university studies and leave Melbourne to pursue a sustainable and independent life in the bush. Katherine learns how to milk a goat, mill flour, grow vegetables, spin wool and make mud...