Ion Idriess draws on his childhood memories to describe the rise of the mines in this, the best history of Broken Hill and surrounds in the NSW Central West.
Ion Idriess documents the mysteries and customs of the Aboriginal people from Oenopelli in the Kimberley through Northb Queensland and on to the Torres Strait Islands. First published in 1955, now in Imprint Classics.
Inthese pages Ion Idriess has brought together stories gathered and lived in his happy battling years in the wild lands of Australia's Far North and the islands beyond. Stories of gold and pearls, of land and cattle, of the search for wealth in dangerous and lonely places. Stories of untamed men and women, white and brown and black, of primitive ......
This adventure of shipwreck in the Torres Strait, and brawl for the white survivor, Barbara Thompson by the European convict who rose to power in the 1840s as a tribal chief, is based on fact - from the ships log of the HMS Rattlesnake, captained by Owen Stanley.
With authenticity that sometimes surprises the reader, Idriess introduces us to Aboriginals from Northern Australia, Papuan head- hunters, and Islanders around the Great Barrier Reef, all still in the colonial phase of European contact. Chinese gold diggers appear too, well before the rise of China. Idriess knew these individuals; he met them, ......
100 photographs of the Light Horse taking Beersheba in 1917 from the Haydon family archives, now colourised, with text by Ion Idriess and Guy Haydon, prepared for the numerous annual events Australia-wide celebrating the succesful charge of the Light Horse on October 30; when once again ABC Landline will replay the ABC feature on the Haydon family ......
Back in print after 60 years. Ion Idriess was one of those who set out from Derby with the ending of the Wet. This is the story of his wanderings in 1932-3 and what he heard and saw along the way, at a time when wireless and air and motor transport were rapidly changing life in the North and North-west.
At the height of his national success, Idriess wrote 9 articles for the new national magazine Walkabout (from 1934-38) which presage his future books. At this stage places like the Torres Strait, the Kimbereley, Darwin, and the Northern Territory were the final frontiers for most Australians.