The Great Australian Loneliness - Ernestine Hill Imprint Travel ISBN 1-875892-06-0 346pp AU$17.95
'This is the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia.... It was in July 1930 that I first set out, a wandering "copy-boy" with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Many a time have I unrolled the little swag by creek and sandhill, alone in the silence and starlight with a white man and a black. I have interviewed men living in wurlies of paper-bark who read Gibbon and wrote Greek and danced in corroboree; lepers and the dying, deep-sea divers and prospectors for gold, and white women fighting the splendid battle of the pioneers.'
Ernestine Hill's classic account of travelling across and around Australia, in a pilgrimage of many years and 100,000 miles.
'The most picturesque account of our outback that has yet been written... a vivid and arresting page of Australian history.' Adelaide Advertiser 'A travel-book that is a pleasure to recommend.' The Irish Times
'With zest, humour and a warm sympathy, Hill brings to life a frontier...' New York Herald Tribune
Ernestine Hill was born in 1899 in Rockhampton, Queensland. Travel was always in her blood and after the death of her husband in 1933 she embarked on a life of almost continuous travel and writing. The Great Australian Loneliness was followed by Water Into Gold. Her best-known book is The Territory.
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