The Great Australian Loneliness by Ernestine Hill [First Edition]

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book edges and corners. Sunning to foredges. Foxing to right foredges and preliminary pages and back endpages. Marks on spine and front and back covers. No dust jacket. Binding to back of book is starting to fray but is supported by the non- non-adhesive protective cover.

1937 Great Britain first edition.

So begins Ernestine Hills' great journey in and around the heart of Australia, the tale of a decade of travelling across and around Australia in the 1930s, accompanied by her young son Robert.

This "strange otherwhereish creature with big beautiful eyes" as Katherine Susannah Prichard has noted, collected the tales of the making of the Territory as a centrepiece, allowing the world at large a chance to travel in the mind through the complexity, duress, and larrikin nature of an Australia-in-the-making.

An Australian travel epic journey across 100,000 miles of bushland.From the Kimberley to Oodnadatta.

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