- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2013
Summary
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, childre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922079909 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922079901 |
| Author: | Brenda Niall |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
`Despite the deep sense of melancholy running through the book, True North is a fascinating look into a life that no longer exists. Mary and Elizabeth had to fight some pretty heavy prejudices, not to mention the distraction of raising young children, to continue with their art, and True North is a fitting tribute to these two feisty women.’ * Melbourne Weekly *
Brenda Niall
Brenda Niall is one of Australia’s foremost biographers. She is the author of several award-winning biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family and her portrait of the Durack sisters, True North.
In 2016, she won the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award for Mannix. In 2004, she was awarded the Order of Australia for ‘services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic’.
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