Discusses why we read autobiographies, the cultural assumptions that go into writing about ourselves, the difference between autobiographies of men and women, and much more.

"With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story." "She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York. And is soon at Harvard,...

Depicts Jill Ker Conway's celebrated memoirs of her Australian youth.