Call of the Outback: The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer by Marianne van Velzen

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Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are heavily foxed and sunned.

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 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 nationwide. She 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 her early brilliance 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.