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'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, children and eventual old age, the Duracks continued to write and paint - their closely intertwined creative lives always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters, unpublished memoirs, diaries and family papers, Brenda Niall gets to the heart of a uniquely Australian story that spans the twentieth century.' Source: http://textpublishing.com.au/ (Sighted 28/03/2012).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
- y True North by Brenda Niall : Notes Victoria : Centre for Adult Education , 2013 Z1935791 2013 single work criticism
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Two Sister Artists
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 24 no. 1 2012;
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 20 no. 3 2012; (p. 43)
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography -
The Kimberley Dreaming of the Durack Sisters
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 56 no. 10 2012; (p. 33-36) -
Writer on Right Track
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekly Review , 22 August 2012; (p. 3)
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Women of the Grass Castle
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 - 25 March 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography -
Kindred Spirits of the Kimberley
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 2012; (p. 27)
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography -
Of the Station
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 340 2012; (p. 21, 23)
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography -
Bookshop
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 April 2012; (p. 15)
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography ; Blue 2012 single work graphic novel -
Books
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Melbourne Weekly , 9 May 2012; (p. 27)
— Review of True North : The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012 single work biography -
The Lost Girls
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 31 March 2012; (p. 26-27) The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 April 2012; (p. 28-29) -
Writer on Right Track
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekly Review , 22 August 2012; (p. 3) -
The Kimberley Dreaming of the Durack Sisters
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 56 no. 10 2012; (p. 33-36) - y True North by Brenda Niall : Notes Victoria : Centre for Adult Education , 2013 Z1935791 2013 single work criticism
Awards
- 2013 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — WA History
- 2013 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Biography of the Year
- 2012 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Non-Fiction
- 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's History Prize — Australian History Prize
Last amended 22 Oct 2013 09:43:51
Subjects:
- Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
- Perth, Western Australia,
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