Mary Martin: A Double Life, Australia - India 1915-1973 by Julie Lewis

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned.

Mary Martin is best known for the bookshops that still bear her name.

In postwar Adelaide, when modernism began to influence Australian art and literature, her bookshop became a gathering place for intellectuals and radicals attracted by her unconventional views, her warm manner and freshly brewed coffee.

In the 1960s, Mary Martin began a new life in India, determined to encourage an intellectual and artistic awareness between Eastern and Western cultures. She worked with the charismatic Dr. Narasimhan among the tribespeople of the Nilgiri Hills while supporting herself and her staff through her international bookselling operation. (back cover)