The Great Australian Loneliness
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Share the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia. Ernestine Hill's The Great Australian Loneliness is the account of a remarkable journey - 100,000 miles across the Australian bush, a women alone, from the Kimberley to Oodnadatta. "It was in 1930 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". Her enchanting account of that epic journey has become a classic of travel writing.
Author: Ernestine Hill
Format: Paperback, 346 pages, 130mm x 200mm, 370 g
Published: 1995, ETT Imprint, Australia
Genre: Travel Writing
Share the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia. Ernestine Hill's The Great Australian Loneliness is the account of a remarkable journey - 100,000 miles across the Australian bush, a women alone, from the Kimberley to Oodnadatta. "It was in 1930 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". Her enchanting account of that epic journey has become a classic of travel writing.