Into the Never-Never

by Brian Johnston

After a long sojourn in China, Brian Johnston arrived in Cairns to join his sister on a campervan trip across the 'top end'. Into the Never-Never is a beautifully written and often hilarious account of their adventures in the remote outback and on to the coast and the cities, in search of the Australia they knew only from tourist brochures and soap operas. The book is suffused with Johnston's growing affection for the country and its people. It is also shadowed by an acute awareness of Australia's underlying cultural tensions. From warts-and-all accounts of casual racism in the outback to unabashed delight in Sydney's Mardi Gras, Into the Never-Never presents Australia's burgeoning cultural diversity in microcosm.

314 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 1993

Reviews

[Suzie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I struggled with the tone of this book, although the descriptive passages of Australian landscape were quite beautiful, the writer was incessantly whiny and annoying. So much so that it overshadowed his insightful moments