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Inspired John Flynn ('Flynn of the Inland') to maintain and extend his Flying Doctor service.
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Dedication: To the Men and Women of the Bush in general, and to one bushman in particular - The Boss.
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- Also braille, sound recording. Read on the ABC in chapter instalments (date not recorded).
Works about this Work
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Adelaide and the Country : The Literary Dimension
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 111-123) -
“Nothing but land” : Women’s Narratives, Gardens, and the Settler-Colonial Imaginary in the US West and Australian Outback
(International)
assertion
2014
single work
essay
— Appears in: Western American Literature , vol. 48 no. 4 2014; (p. 374-399)
— Review of The Road from Coorain 1989 single work autobiography ; No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography ; Beyond the Western Rivers 1955 single work autobiography'This essay applies ecocriticism, informed by a transnational, settler-colonial theory, to a comparative analysis of texts by three US and three Australian women authors. Through an examination of both “wild” and domestic landscapes, the essay works to establish how these authors manifest the “settler-colonial imaginary” through their glorification of the process of establishing English-style gardens on homesteads founded in territory depicted as an “unland.” The essay reads the insistent use of a “nothing but” construction in descriptions of uncultivated land in both the Australian and US texts as signifying the literary imagining of the “unland” of the colonized territory, a discursive clearing of the land, as it were, to make room for settlement. From there, it proceeds to compare and contrast the different ways in which these texts imagined settlers’ occupation of land as an ecological struggle to wrest an arid or semi-arid landscape into a space amenable for the production of an English garden—the symbol of the settler-colonial project’s ultimate success. It then discusses texts by settler women in both Australia and the United States that imagine settlement in a more ecologically sustainable way, signaling a potential “counter-colonial” gesture of reconciliation with place.' [publisher's summary]
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'It Was to Have Been my Best Book' : Dorothy Green and E. L. Grant Watson
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 10 2010; 'When literary critic Dorothy Green died in 1991, those in her immediate circle were mystified to learn that little trace of the biography of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, which she was known to have been researching for some twenty years, had been found among her papers. This article examines the reasons why.' (Author's abstract) -
Literature in the Arid Zone
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 70-92) This chapter surveys and assesses from an ecocentric perspective some representative literary portrayals of the Australian deserts. Generally, it contrasts works that portray the desert as an alien, hostile, and undifferentiated void with works that recognise and value the biological particularities of specific desert places. It explores the literature of three dominant cultural orientations to the deserts: pastoralism, mining, and traversal. It concludes with a consideration of several multi-voiced and/or multi-genred bioregionally informed works that suggests fruitful directions for more ecocentric literary approaches. (abstract taken from The Littoral Zone) -
Water Beneath the Bridge
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 2 no. 5 1963; (p. 85)
— Review of But Still the Stream : A Novel of the Murray River 1962 single work novel ; No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography
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Two Australian Novels
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 July vol. 4 no. 7 1932; (p. 103)
— Review of No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography ; Wards of the Outer March 1930 single work novel -
Untitled
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times , 24 June 1932; (p. 2)
— Review of No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography -
The Australian Contribution
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 2 May no. 12 1932; (p. 17-23)
— Review of Boomerang 1932 single work novel ; No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography ; No Escape 1931 single work novel ; Threads of Yesterday 1932 single work novel ; Flynn of the Inland 1932 single work biography ; The Desert Column : Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine 1932 single work autobiography diary correspondence -
Water Beneath the Bridge
1963
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 2 no. 5 1963; (p. 85)
— Review of But Still the Stream : A Novel of the Murray River 1962 single work novel ; No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography -
[Review] I Can Jump Puddles Alan Marshall
1955
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 14 no. 4 1955; (p. 584-585)
— Review of No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography ; I Can Jump Puddles 1955 single work single work autobiography ; Beyond the Western Rivers 1955 single work autobiography -
Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations
1932
single work
column
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 July vol. 4 no. 7 1932; (p. 110) -
Literature in the Arid Zone
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 70-92) This chapter surveys and assesses from an ecocentric perspective some representative literary portrayals of the Australian deserts. Generally, it contrasts works that portray the desert as an alien, hostile, and undifferentiated void with works that recognise and value the biological particularities of specific desert places. It explores the literature of three dominant cultural orientations to the deserts: pastoralism, mining, and traversal. It concludes with a consideration of several multi-voiced and/or multi-genred bioregionally informed works that suggests fruitful directions for more ecocentric literary approaches. (abstract taken from The Littoral Zone) -
'It Was to Have Been my Best Book' : Dorothy Green and E. L. Grant Watson
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 10 2010; 'When literary critic Dorothy Green died in 1991, those in her immediate circle were mystified to learn that little trace of the biography of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, which she was known to have been researching for some twenty years, had been found among her papers. This article examines the reasons why.' (Author's abstract) -
Adelaide and the Country : The Literary Dimension
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 111-123) - y Myrtle Rose White Interviewed by Hazel de Berg Hazel de Berg (interviewer), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 1960 18412163 1960 single work interview
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- South Australia,