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Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound 2/e
Poems and letters about love, war and suffering from anti-fascist Byronic figure, killed during battle in 1936
ISBN-13: 9781784102487 (Paperback)
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: FYFIELD BOOKS
John Cornford
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AUD $24.99
Stock: 4 in stock
Local release date: 13/09/2016
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Categories: Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]

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Tracks of Destiny
From Derby to Tennant Creek
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.
ISBN-13: 9781922473936 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $34.95
Stock: 23 in stock
Local release date: 18/11/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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TO BEERSHEBA 1917
With the Australian Light Horse
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 ......
ISBN-13: 9781922384911 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 18 in stock
Local release date: 15/10/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]Memoirs [BM]

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THE YELLOW JOSS (Revised Edition)
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.
ISBN-13: 9781922384959 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: IMPRINT CLASSICS
Ion Idriess
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 0 in stock
Local release date: 01/12/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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The Yellow Joss (New Edition)
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, ......
ISBN-13: 9781923024663 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: IMPRINT CLASSICS
Ion Idriess
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 26 in stock
Local release date: 01/02/2024
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Categories: Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]

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THE WILD WHITE MAN OF BADU
A Story of the Coral Sea
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.
ISBN-13: 9781922384935 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 11 in stock
Local release date: 23/10/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]

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The Wild North
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 ......
ISBN-13: 9781923024304 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $29.95
Stock: 28 in stock
Local release date: 04/09/2023
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Categories: Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]

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THE SILVER CITY
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.
ISBN-13: 9781922384829 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Ion Idriess
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 13 in stock
Local release date: 15/10/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]

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The Man From Minmi
My Dad - Joe Thompson's Story
Joe Thompson was born in the small mining town of Minmi, north of Newcastle in 1889. This book follows his life there as a Pupil Teacher, to the Balmain area, where he played soccer for both Balmain and New South Wales, to a role as an instructor with the fledgling Royal Australian Navy.
ISBN-13: 9781925706543 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Geoffrey Thompson
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AUD $19.99
Stock: 38 in stock
Local release date: 31/08/2018
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Categories: Autobiography: general [BGA]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]Memoirs [BM]Black & Asian studies [JFSL3]