Call of the Outback: The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2016. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. AUSTRALIANA Exploration & TravelLong 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. xiv, 306 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm #150624 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 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover AS NEW COPY!