The Great Australian Loneliness

The Great Australian Loneliness
Ernestine Hill
RRP:
NZ$ 50.99
Our Price:
NZ$ 43.34
Paperback
Not defined - 245pg
1 Mar 2021 AU
9781922473608
Out Of Stock
Currently no stock in-store, stock is sourced to your order
' Of course you' ll take a gun,' they said to me when I left Melbourne, ' even if it' s only one of those little mother-of-pearl things the vamps used to carry in their evening-bags. Apart from wild blacks there will be crocodiles, and Malays running amok, and men that haven' t seen a white woman in thirty years. There might be three hundred miles of desolation on a truck with a drunken Afghan, and you' ll be alone in the night-time, in those pearling-towns of sand and sin, with a half-caste woman keeping the shanty-' ' Yes,' I reflected, ' I had better take a gun. ' So begins Ernestine Hills great journey in and around the heart of Australia, the tale of a decade of travelling across and around the continent in the 1930s, accompanied by her young son Robert. This "strange otherwhereish creature with big beautiful eyes" as Katherine Susannah Prichard has noted, collected the tales of the making of the Territory as a centrepiece, allowing the world at large a chance to travel in the mind through the complexity, duress, and larrikin nature of an Australia-in-the-making. An Australian travel classic.
Franklin grew up in isolated bush regions of New South Wales that were much like the glum setting of her first novel, My Brilliant Career (1901; filmed 1980), with its discontented, often disagreeable pioneer characters; yet, she was passionately attached to these regions. Franklin' s feminism and her outright rejection of traditional women' s roles made her books controversial in Australia (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
Status: Indicates in stock with Supplier
ISBN-13: 9781922473608
Published: 1 Mar 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: ETT Imprint
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Format: Paperback
Pages: 245

In stock - for items in stock we aim to dispatch the next business day. For delivery in NZ allow 2-5 business days, with rural taking a wee bit longer.

Locally sourced in NZ - stock comes from a NZ supplier with an approximate delivery of 7-15 business days.

International Imports - stock is imported into NZ, depending on air or sea shipping option from the international supplier stock can take 10-30 working days to arrive into NZ. 

Pre-order Titles - delivery will vary depending on where the title is published, if local stock is available in NZ then 5-7 business days, for international imports it can be 10-30 business days. In all cases we will access the quickest supply option.

Delivery Packaging - we ship all items in cardboard sleeves or by box with either packing paper or corn starch chips. (We avoid using plastics bubble bags)

Tracking - Orders are delivered by track and trace courier and are fully insured, tracking information will be sent by email once dispatched.

View our full Order & Delivery information

Details of the product above will be automatically included with your enquiry.