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Call of the Outback : The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer
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'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 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. ' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Leonardus van Velzen and Maria Johanna Meijer in loving memory and gratitude. / They dared to lose sight of the shore.
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[Review Essay] Call of the Outback
2017
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— Appears in: Northern Territory Historical Studies , no. 28 2017; (p. 97)'Call of the Outback is a biography of Australian writer Ernestine Hill by Dutch/Australian writer and translator Marianne Van Velzen. Her interest in Hill was piqued as a child coming across The Australian Loneliness as part of her father’s English book collection. Her family, immigrants to Australia in the post Second World War period, came to use Hill’s text as both an aid to learning the language and as a cipher to understanding the new country to which they had come.' (Introduction)
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'True Stories and Tall' : Ernestine Hill in the Outback
2016
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 380 2016; (p. 13-14)
— Review of Call of the Outback : The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer 2016 single work biography -
Intrepid Hill Brought Outback to Suburbia
2016
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— Appears in: The Weekend West , 9 March 2016; (p. 8)
— Review of Call of the Outback : The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer 2016 single work biography
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Intrepid Hill Brought Outback to Suburbia
2016
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend West , 9 March 2016; (p. 8)
— Review of Call of the Outback : The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer 2016 single work biography -
'True Stories and Tall' : Ernestine Hill in the Outback
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 380 2016; (p. 13-14)
— Review of Call of the Outback : The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Hill, Nomad, Adventurer and Trailblazer 2016 single work biography -
[Review Essay] Call of the Outback
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Northern Territory Historical Studies , no. 28 2017; (p. 97)'Call of the Outback is a biography of Australian writer Ernestine Hill by Dutch/Australian writer and translator Marianne Van Velzen. Her interest in Hill was piqued as a child coming across The Australian Loneliness as part of her father’s English book collection. Her family, immigrants to Australia in the post Second World War period, came to use Hill’s text as both an aid to learning the language and as a cipher to understanding the new country to which they had come.' (Introduction)
