Call of the outback : the remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer / Marianne van Velzen
- Bib ID:
- 6939291
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Velzen, Marianne van, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2016
- ©2016
- xiv, 306 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781760290597 (paperback)
- 1760290599 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Long before Robin Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was dubbed 'The Wild Woman of the Outback' for her intrepid travels through the remotest reaches of Australia...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 introducing the outback to the popular imagination of Australians...Throughout the 1930s Ernestine's hugely popular outback stories appeared in newspapers around the country and in journals like Walkabout. 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 extraordinary characters she met and the exotic landscapes she explored.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 289-304)
- Subject:
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- Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972
- Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972 -- Journeys -- Australia
- Travel writers -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women journalists -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women travelers -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Australia -- Description and travel
- Australia -- Biography
- Australian
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- Publication date:
- 2016
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