Flynn of the inland (A & R classics)

Literature & Fiction

Idriess, Ion

Contemporary

A & R Classics

ION L. IDRIESS'S GREATEST STORIES ( 2 Vols in Slipcase )

Bookworld

In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as "Gouger" for the Bulletin.\nIn Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler's axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district's historical background. The book is peopled by characters given to polite chiacking and the writing of poetry, and the reading of 'pomes' by the evening campfire... Perhaps the most interesting is the 'Jungle Man' who could scent animals and Aborigines in the scrub before they scented him. He also possessed incredible hearing... who took Jack into the rugged mountains and the dense jungle and showed him a primitive world few men have ever seen. Jack was treading in the paths of his heroes - the explorers. 
Beverley Eley, from her biography Ion Idriess.

Back O' Cairns

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

ETT Imprint

At the age of 13 Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. Above all Kidman created a mighty cattle empire of more than a hundred stations, fighting droughts, bushfires, floods, and plagues of vermin to do so. His enterprise and courage won him a huge fortune and made him a legend.This engrossing story by famous Australian author Ion Idriess is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman—the Cattle King.

The Cattle King

Community & Culture

Bolinda Audio

As an authentic picture of life among the head-hunting warriors of the Torres Strait Islands it is probably unsurpassed. 
There are some who may think that Mr Idriess is giving us simply an imaginative picture, but the author has travelled the Strait with the discerning eye and contemplative soul of the artist who is satisfied only with first-hand colour, and who, while blending history and romance with subtle skill, at the same time keeps within the region of fact. The records and documents placed at his disposal by those who have patiently collected them in the interests of history, of ethnological and scientific research, and (if one may be allowed to say so) even of missionary theological science also, provide the rich store upon which he has drawn for the thrilling story he has woven round the people of Mer and the other islands of Torres Strait. 
- from the Foreword by William Macfarlane, Mission Priest, Torres Strait 1933 
Idriess brings into being named and known heroes who engage in everyday practices in a named and known landscape and seascape. This spatial, temporal and emotional anchoring of the novel's characters, black and white, authenticates the tale. 
- Maureen Fuary, James Cook University

Drums of Mer

Genre Fiction

Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is one of six manuals written for soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent. 
Written in his characteristic, colloquial, man-to-man style, Mr Idriess here reveals the secrets of the dead shot. What to do and what not to do are impressed upon the budding rifleman. He brings out clearly the importance of apparently trifling points. 
No more opportune book could have been published. Australia for the first time in its history has been bombed. Invasion looms on our northern frontier. The imperative need now is for rifles, more rifles, yet more rifles - and riflemen.

Shoot to Kill: The Australian Guerrilla Book 1

Leaders & Notable People

With Foreword by Herbert Basedow, M.D., B.Sc., author of The Australian Aboriginal, extracts from Lasseter's Diary and Letters and photographs of the 1930 Expedition.Morning Post (London) - "Perhaps the greatest of Australia's real life epics."Otago Daily Times (NZ) - "One almost finds it difficult to believe that the story is modern and true."Sydney Mail - "One of the most graphic, most poignant, and most absorbingly interesting tales that the chronicles of Australian exploration - those treasure stores of dramatic adventure - have ever revealed."The Herald (Melbourne) - "A true story that for sheer excitement, thrills, and sustained suspense, cannot be surpassed by even the most imaginative novelist."

Lasseter's Last Ride: An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery

Forty Fathoms Deep

Historical

Nemarluk

The Wild White Man of Badu

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