Call of the outback : the remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer / Marianne van Velzen
- Bib ID:
- 7294136
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Velzen, Marianne van, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017
- ©2016
- xiv, 306 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760296254 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The incredible life story of the original nomadic writer, Ernestine Hill.
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback... After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this country's vast interior and bringing the outback into the popular imagination of Australians...Throughout the 1930s Ernestine's hugely popular stories about Australia's remotest regions appeared in newspapers and journals around the nation. She still remains famous for her bestselling books The Great Australian Loneliness, The Territory, Flying Doctor Calling and My Love Must Wait... Call of the Outback provides a vivid portrait of Ernestine, from the early brilliance she showed as a child in Brisbane to her later life. In particular it evokes Ernestine's larger-than-life personality, the exotic landscapes she explored and the remarkable characters she met on her travels.
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- Record machine-generated from publisher information.
- First published: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-304)
- Subject:
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- Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972
- Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972 -- Travel -- Australia
- Travel writers -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women journalists -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography
- Biography & True Stories
- Australia -- Description and travel
- Australia -- Biography
- Australian
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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