SOURCE: “An Explorer and Advocate: College President Jill Ker Conway's Account of Life in Her New Home, America,” in Chicago Tribune Books, October 2, 1994, p. 5.

In the following review, Cole offers a favorable assessment of True North.

The search for identity—the need to discover who we are—takes us on many journeys whose ultimate destination cannot be predicted, even in our dreams. For Jill Ker Conway, who recounted her struggles growing up on, and then flight from, her family's isolated Australian sheep station in her moving memoir of youth, The Road from Coorain, the metaphor of travel is especially apt because she begins her second, equally resonant volume of memoirs, True North with an actual journey—her plane ride from her native Australia to New York and, more important, a new life in the United States.

Ultimately, that journey will take her to Boston, Europe, Canada and back...