sentences:  "We of the Never Never" is regarded as being significant as a precursor of the 1930s landscape writers.Already in 1908 Australia was a significantly urbanised country and the book was seen to provide symbols of things that made Australia different from anywhere else, underwriting an Australian legend of life and achievement in the outback, where "men and a few women still lived heroic lives in rhythm with the gallop of a horse" in "forbidding faraway places".In 1988 the book was referred to as a "minor masterpiece of Australian letters" by Penguin's "New Literary History of Australia".