SOURCE: A review of True North, in Smithsonian, Vol. 25, No. 9, December, 1994, pp. 144–46.

In the following review, Park offers a positive assessment of True North.

As a child living on “Coorain,” her family's sheep station, little Jill Ker knew only the schooling of the Australian outback. She played with farm animals and her two brothers, joined in the rough and demanding duties of a 32,000-acre property, never saw another girl child until she was 7, and was 14 before she set foot in a formal school—which she hated. Years later, at the pinnacle of a blazing academic career, she was named president of prestigious Smith College. How in the world did she do it?

True North tells how. This fine book takes over Jill Ker Conway's personal story from where her beautiful and moving childhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, ended, with her departure from Australia in search of richer...