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Back o' Cairns - Trekking the Cape York Peninsula by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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. In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler's a ...Show more
Headhunters of the Coral Sea by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Preface by, Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The story of the capture of the two Lamars (reincarnated natives), as the white boys were called, is one that has been handed down in legend among the Torres Strait islanders. After Idriess, years later, learned in civilised society the other part of the story - that the two boys, Jack Ireland and Will ...Show more
Our Flying Aces by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A previously unpublished book by Ion Idriess, celebrating the life and exploits of our original aviators - Hargraves, Duigan, Cobby, Ross, Watt, Taylor and Palmer. Illustrated.
Outlaws of the Leopolds by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
North West Australia - in the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly known as the King Leopold Ranges between 1879 and 2020, is the setting for the story of Aboriginal leader Jandamarra and his fight against white invasion of his country.Jandamarra, who was also known as Pigeon, had been a blacktracker of ...Show more
Tracks of Destiny - From Derby to Tennant Creek by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$29.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Ion Idriess was one of those who set out from Derby with the ending of the Wet. This is the story of his wanderings 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, but when the age of the pioneers, of he ...Show more
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