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In the early 1900s a lady wrote a book about life in this part of the Northern Territory and it went on to sell more than one million copies worldwide. There is a legendary area south of Darwin known as the “Never Never” which is now lost in the ever changing mists of time. See the historic wonders of Hội An, Vietnam

The Outback and fascinating Lava Tubes at Undara.Īncient encounters along the Kimberley Coastĭoing the Locomotion on Grandma's ExpressĪ MILLION DANCING SMILES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (Introduction by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit Ship's Historic Return to SA's Copper Coast 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. 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”. Read in English by Gail Timmerman Vaughan KHand and Mike Pelton. LibriVox recording of We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn.