The Great Australian Loneliness by Ernestine Hill

The Great Australian Loneliness

by Ernestine Hill

Robertson and Mullens, 1945, sepia photographic frontispiece, sepia photographic plates, illustrated (maps) end-papers, hardcover

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on half title page, cracked hinge, front cover loose, text block firm, (see photographs)

"This is the story of a journalists journey round and across Australia, far from the rhythm of 'the big machine' and the sameness of cities.
A magnificent empty land; of six and a half millions of its children, six millions set their lives and their watches to the clanging of the tram-bells and the train-whistles.  The odd half-million share three-quarters of the Continent between them, and tell the time in months and years.
It was in July, 1930, that i first set out, a wandering 'copy-boy' with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines.  Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas, by aeroplane and camel and coastal-ship, by truck and lugger and pack-horse team and private yacht, the trail led me on across five years and 50,000 miles, a trail of infinite surprises."

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