Author: Ion Llewellyn IdriessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape York Peninsula (Qld.)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Madman's Island
Author: Ion Llewellyn IdriessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape York Peninsula (Qld.)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Works of Ion L. Idriess: Madman's island
Author: Ion Llewellyn IdriessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Madman's Island
Author: Ion IdriessPublisher:
ISBN: 9781925706970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 1920, though, as the three ex-diggers talked across the bar at the West Coast, swapping stories of the War and goings-on in Cooktown and along the coast, the pioneer vision would have still been fresh and sustained by hope and dreams. All that was needed was a little luck - which might come from the Chinese gambling den across the way, or at ......
The Works of Ion L. Idriess: Man tracks
Author: Ion Llewellyn IdriessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Desert Column
Author: Ion IdriessPublisher: ETT Imprint
ISBN: 1925416860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
One hundred years after the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in October 1917... 'The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view"... Idriess served as a sniper with the 5th Australian Light Horse. Enlisting in 1914, he began his diary "as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli" and he continued writing until returning to Australia... The diaries cover his experience of some of the war's major events from life in the trenches at Gallipoli to the battles at Romani and Beersheba. One of Idriess' strengths as a writer is his ability to place the reader at the scene of the action... The diaries reveal a keenness of observation and a descriptive and pacey style that Idriess would develop further in The Desert Column.' - The Australian War Memorial
Prospecting for Gold
Author: Ion IdriessPublisher: ETT Imprint
ISBN: 1922384038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.' And so Jack Idriess wrote Prospecting for Gold in 1931. This is the 20th edition and known throughout Australia as the classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors. 'This book is written to help the new hand who ventures into the bush seeking gold... The "towny" prospector, with this book as a guide, will soon master methods of prospecting and the working of his find.' In an easy conversational tone, the author of Lasseter's Last Ride and Flynn of the Inland sets many a hopeful prospector on the road to discovering gold.
Lasseter's Last Ride
Author: Ion IdriessPublisher: ETT Imprint
ISBN: 1925416933
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
(from The Spectator, May 1936) In his introduction to Lasseter's Last Ride (Cape, 7s. 6d.) Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood writes : "The annals of Central Australian exploration are tragic and heroic, but it is long indeed since I read a more moving story of endurance and heroism in the face of terrific odds than the epic which Mr. Ion Idriess has woven out of the last few months of the life of L. H. B. Lasseter." The reader will agree with this, and wonder why he has not heard of Mr. Idriess before. He is well known in Australia, but this is his first book to be published in England. It will not be his last, if the present one meets with the success it deserves. Having himself been a prospector, the story he has constructed out of the fragments of documentary evidence - a few reports, the barely legible diary and letters found buried near Lasseter's last camps - is probably very close to what actually happened. Harry Lasseter had once discovered a rich gold reef in unexplored west Central Australia. Owing to a faulty watch, the bearings he took were useless. An expedition was fitted out to locate it. From the first, misfortune dogged the steps of the party. Food ran short and they returned to the base-camp - all except Lasseter, who went on alone. When his two camels bolted he was left waterless in the desert. Blinded by sand and tortured by dysentry, he found the reef, but died shortly afterwards, deserted by a tribe of aborigines with whom he had tried to make friends. Mr. Idriess tells this story in a simple, virile style which is, in its intense economy, comparable to Hemingway at his best.
What Happened When
Author: Anthony BarkerPublisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741150485
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
"Arranged chronologically, each year beginning with a list of political and general events against prcise dates, followed by the year's achievements" INTRODUCTION.
Lost Science
Author: Gerry VassilatosPublisher:
ISBN: 9780932813756
Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rediscover the legendary names of a suppressed scientific revolution -- remarkable lives, astounding discoveries, and incredible inventions which would have produced a world of wonder. Each chapter is a biographic treasure. Ours is a world living hundreds of years behind its intended stage of development. Complete knowledge of this loss is the key to recapturing this wonder technology. -- From publisher's description.
The Foundations of Culture in Australia
Author: Percy Reginald StephensenPublisher: Unwin Hyman
ISBN: 9780049090293
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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