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It was 1902 and with the “little Missus” being told she shouldn’t be joining her husband when he ventured to the homestead, “The Elsey” in the Never Never of the Northern Territory because a white woman didn’t belong, the determination of them both to go saw them on board a train from Darwin. Once leaving the relative comfort of that vehicle, it was horseback with their first setback being stuck on the wrong side of the Fergusson River with the country experiencing “the Wet”. But cross it they d
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Oct 27, 2010
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A very enjoyable read mostly because of:
A Beautiful description of the Australian bush
"For a moment we waited, spellbound in the brilliant sunshine; then the dogs running down to the water's edge, the gallahs and cockatoos rose with gorgeous sunrise effect: a floating gray-and-pink cloud, backed by sunlit flashing white. Direct to the forest trees they floated and, settling there in their myriads, as by a miracle the gaunt, gnarled old giants of the bush all over blossomed with garlands of grey, ...more
A Beautiful description of the Australian bush
"For a moment we waited, spellbound in the brilliant sunshine; then the dogs running down to the water's edge, the gallahs and cockatoos rose with gorgeous sunrise effect: a floating gray-and-pink cloud, backed by sunlit flashing white. Direct to the forest trees they floated and, settling there in their myriads, as by a miracle the gaunt, gnarled old giants of the bush all over blossomed with garlands of grey, ...more
A truly heartwarming Classic. It's called The Never-Never because you never want to leave. The Northern Territory is still a remote place but back in the early 1900s, when Jeannie Gunn was living there, everything came in on bullock drays and horseback. The landscape is an original character all of it's own on Elsy Station along with the original characters of the "bush-folk".
They talk of two extreme seasons in the NT, The Dry and The Wet both have their dangers and both their charms.
The langu ...more
They talk of two extreme seasons in the NT, The Dry and The Wet both have their dangers and both their charms.
The langu ...more
the bookcover image goodreads uploaded here is not We of the Never Never.= have fixed that.
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