Mary Durack

Dame Mary Durack AC DBE was an Australian author and historian. She wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country.

Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Michael Patrick Durack and Bessie Durack , and her siblings lived at the remote Argyle Downs and Ivanhoe cattle stations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Durack family were pioneers in the settlement of the area by Europeans. The story of her familys history, beginning with the mid19th century migration from Ireland, is presented by Durack in Kings in Grass Castles, and its sequel, Sons in the Saddle.

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