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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
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'Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twenties ignited in the sisters a lifelong love of the Kimberley, along with a growing unease about the situation of the Aboriginal people employed there. Through war, love affairs, children and eventual old age, the Duracks continued to write and paint - their closely intertwined creative lives always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters, unpublished memoirs, diaries and family papers, Brenda Niall gets to the heart of a uniquely Australian story that spans the twentieth century.' Source: http://textpublishing.com.au/ (Sighted 28/03/2012).

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2012 .
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      Extent: ix, 291 p., [12] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus. (some col.), ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliographical references and index.
      ISBN: 9781921758928 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon True North by Brenda Niall : Notes Emma Gordon Williams , Victoria : Centre for Adult Education , 2013 Z1935791 2013 single work criticism
Two Sister Artists Gillian Bouras , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 24 no. 1 2012;

— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Brenda Niall , 2012 single work biography
Untitled Stella Lees , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 20 no. 3 2012; (p. 43)

— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Brenda Niall , 2012 single work biography
The Kimberley Dreaming of the Durack Sisters Nicholas Hasluck , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 56 no. 10 2012; (p. 33-36)
Writer on Right Track 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekly Review , 22 August 2012; (p. 3)
Women of the Grass Castle Fran Metcalf , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 - 25 March 2012; (p. 20)

— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Brenda Niall , 2012 single work biography
Kindred Spirits of the Kimberley Michael McKernan , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 2012; (p. 27)

— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Brenda Niall , 2012 single work biography
Of the Station Susan Sheridan , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 340 2012; (p. 21, 23)

— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Brenda Niall , 2012 single work biography
Bookshop Lucy Sussex , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 April 2012; (p. 15)

— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Brenda Niall , 2012 single work biography ; Blue Pat Grant , 2012 single work graphic novel
Books Jan Fisher , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Melbourne Weekly , 9 May 2012; (p. 27)

— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Brenda Niall , 2012 single work biography
The Lost Girls Jane Sullivan , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 31 March 2012; (p. 26-27) The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 April 2012; (p. 28-29)
Writer on Right Track 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekly Review , 22 August 2012; (p. 3)
The Kimberley Dreaming of the Durack Sisters Nicholas Hasluck , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 56 no. 10 2012; (p. 33-36)
y separately published work icon True North by Brenda Niall : Notes Emma Gordon Williams , Victoria : Centre for Adult Education , 2013 Z1935791 2013 single work criticism
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