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.
An Outback Life is a story of a woman who spent the prime of her life in the wilds of Australia's Northern Territory, when it really was an untamed frontier. In this earthy tale of love, hope, loss, and survival, Mary Groves describes the sometimes heart-breaking loneliness, the hard work and the rises and falls in her family's fortunes as they battle to survive in Australia's Top End.
Australian Geographic, Australia’s premier geographic journal, brings you the best of the country from those who know it best. Discover Australia’s rich cultural heritage, its beautiful landscapes, its unique and diverse plants and wildlife, and explore outback towns and the true-blue characters who call them home.
AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC, the country’s premier geographic journal, brings you the best of Australia from those who know it best. Discover the Australia’s rich cultural heritage and its beautiful landscapes, our unique and diverse plants and wildlife, and explore outback towns and the true-blue characters who call them home.
AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC, the country’s premier geographic journal, brings you the best of Australia from those who know it best. Discover the Australia’s rich cultural heritage and its beautiful landscapes, our unique and diverse plants and wildlife, and explore outback towns and the true-blue characters who call them home.
