Call of the Outback: The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer

Marianne van Velzen

Call of the Outback: The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Country
Australia
Published
22 February 2017
Pages
320
ISBN
9781760296254

Call of the Outback: The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer

Marianne van Velzen

Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia’s 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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