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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 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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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2016 .
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      Extent: 320p.
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      • Published 27th January 2016
      ISBN: 9781760290597
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2017 .
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      Extent: 320p.
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      • Published March 2017
      ISBN: 9781760296254
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Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Call of the Outback Mickey Dewar , 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)
'True Stories and Tall' : Ernestine Hill in the Outback Susan Sheridan , 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 Marianne Van Velzen , 2016 single work biography
Intrepid Hill Brought Outback to Suburbia Robert Reece , 2016 single work 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 Marianne Van Velzen , 2016 single work biography
Intrepid Hill Brought Outback to Suburbia Robert Reece , 2016 single work 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 Marianne Van Velzen , 2016 single work biography
'True Stories and Tall' : Ernestine Hill in the Outback Susan Sheridan , 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 Marianne Van Velzen , 2016 single work biography
[Review Essay] Call of the Outback Mickey Dewar , 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)
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