Newly married, Jeannie Gunn accompanies her husband to 'The Elsey', the huge cattle station in the Northern Territory, several hundred miles from the nearest town. 'First published in 1908, We of the Never-Never has long been regarded as a classic of Australian literature. Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions or markings, dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs) However, Chapters 19 and 20 go beyond this and describe preparation for and execution of a hunt down the rivers for aboriginal people - described repeatedly with a racist epithet that was commonly used in that time but is completely unacceptable now.Hutchinson Group, 1981, ISBN 0090470931, hardcover, dust-jacket NOTE: The book is a product of its time and the descriptions of aboriginal people and their treatment reflect the attitudes of early 20th century whites. We of the Never Never covers the time that Jeannie and Aeneas Gunn lived at the Elsey in 19. What follows is a rural romance, punctuated with occasional lyrical descriptions of the surrounds of the Elsey. The idea of introducing a white woman into the outback of the Northern Territory of the time met with opposition from all directions, and with flurries of telegrams from the men of the Elsey, but on she travelled, proving to be resilient and energetic.

Shortly after their marriage, Jeannie Gunn (to be dubbed 'the Missus') and her husand, Aeneas Gunn 'the Maluka', travelled to Darwin then into the Katherine to take up the management of the Elsey Cattle Station.

The primary concession to fiction was that she fictionalised the names of many of the real-life characters that featured in her life at the time, giving them names like 'the Sanguine Scott', 'the Fizzer', 'the Quiet Stockman' and 'the Dandy'. The book was published as a novel but draws on the author’s own experience in settling on the Elsey Station way out in the 'back blocks' of the Katherine region of the Northern Territories of Australia early in the 20th century. It is considered by many as a classic of Australian writing. We of the Never Never is the second book written by Jeannie Gunn under the name of “Mrs Aeneas Gunn”.

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