This is an auction for WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER by Mrs Aeneas Gunn.

From Wikipedia:

"We of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure their identities. She published this book under the name Mrs Aeneas Gunn, using her husband's first and last name. She was the first white woman to settle in the Mataranka area. Her husband was a partner in Elsey cattle station on the Roper River, some 483 km south of Darwin. On 2 January 1902 the couple sailed for Port Darwin so that he could take up his role as the station's manager. WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER describes the journey and settling in. On 16 March 1903 Aeneas died of malarial dysentery and Jeannie returned to Melbourne shortly afterwards. WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER was translated into German in 1927. By 1945, 320,000 copies had been sold. This novel, together with her other book, was adapted for Australian schools. By 1990 over a million copies of the book had been sold. The book is regarded as being significant as a precursor of the 1930s landscape writers. Already in 1908 Australia was a significantly urbanised country and the book was seen to provide symbols of things that made Australia different from anywhere else, underwriting an Australian legend of life and achievement in the outback, where "men and a few women still lived heroic lives in rhythm with the gallop of a horse" in "forbidding faraway places". In 1988 the book was referred to as a "minor masterpiece of Australian letters" by Penguin’s New Literary History of Australia..."

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Hardback 1971.

256 pages.

Good condition.

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