If ''We of the Never Never'' sounds simple, old-fashioned and as suffocatingly noble as its heroine, it is. But Jeannie showed she could be a good sport, and she adapted to the demands of her new life, and everybody loved her.
The men, in particular, were suspicious of Jeannie Gunn, thinking she would change their rugged life with her ladylike ways. The inhabitants of the area were aborigines and white cattlemen, with neither group accustomed to having a white woman in residence. © 2021 Mint Editions (E-bok): 9781513293981''WE OF THE NEVER NEVER'' is based on a memoir by Jeannie Gunn, who in 1902 accompanied her husband, Aeneas, from Melbourne, Australia, to the remote Northern Territory, where he became the new manager of the Elsey cattle station. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jeannie Gunn’s We of the Never Never is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers. Although the local cattle drovers are initially wary of her presence, the narrator proves herself as a courageous and hardworking woman, a friend of settlers and Aboriginal people alike.
Over hundreds of miles on horseback, they observe for the first time the natural beauty of some of the wildest landscapes on Earth. ” Determined to follow her husband wherever he goes, “little Missus” braves the harsh trek to the distant cattle station where he has been appointed overseer. It was out of town just then, up-country somewhere, billabonging in true bush-whacker style, but was expected to return in a day or two, when it would be at our service. “To begin somewhere near the beginning, the Măluka-better known at that time as the new Boss for the Elsey-and I, his ‘missus, ’ were at Darwin, in the Northern Territory, waiting for the train that was to take us just as far as it could-one hundred and fifty miles-on our way to the Never-Never. Sympathetic and utterly human, Gunn’s voice is a testament to her bravery as the first woman to settle in the Mataranka area, where she lived for just over a year until her husband’s tragic death from malaria. Based on her experience accompanying her husband Aeneas to the remote cattle station of Elsey, Gunn’s novel is a fascinating masterpiece of Australian literature that explores the landscape of the continent’s Northern Territory while depicting the tense relationship between white settlers and the Aboriginal people they displaced. We of the Never Never (1908) is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn.
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