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Lightning Ridge - The Land of Black Opals by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Land of Black Opals.In this book, Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings, of his childhood in Lismore, Tamworth and Broken Hill, of his apprenticeship in bushcraft, and of the growing love for the Australian Outback which illumines all his work. He tells of the jobs he had - as rouseabout, horse breake ...Show more
Lurking Death - True Stories of Snipers in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine by Ion Idriess
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Australian Guerrilla Series #5
Madman's Island by Ion Idriess; Ernest Hunter (Introduction by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Cape York Peninsula, 1920... 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 migh ...Show more
Man Tracks - With the Mounted Police in the Australian Wilds by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This new Idriess book tells of stirring episodes in the pursuit, of lawbreakers in the primitive lands. Every chapter is authentic. Patrols through the Kimberleys, the wild Fitzmaurice River country, the nor'-west of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Central Australia; each incident recorde ...Show more
Men of the Jungle by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Created by, Editor, (various roles))
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
There were three of us - Norman, Charlie, and I. Norman and Charlie had a touch of colored blood; their father was the famous pioneer Robert Baird, who had opened up China Camp when he and Christy Palmerston brought the first cattle over land.Of Norman and Charlie the author says that their life was liv ...Show more
Nemarluk - King of the Wilds by Ion Idriess
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Nemarluk, one of the most feared Aboriginal renegades in the north of Australia, had vowed to rid his land of all intruders. This is the story of the last few years of his life and his extraordinary battle with the tracker, Bul-Bul, brought in by the Northern Territory Police in a final desperate attemp ...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A previously unpublished book by Ion Idriess, celebrating the life and exploits of our original aviators - Hargraves, Duigan, Cobby, Ross, Watt, Taylor and Palmer.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
Over the Range - Sunshine and Shadow in the Kimberleys by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles))
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This book may interest Australians in one of the wildest areas left in their continent - that north of the King Leopold Range. And it may reveal a little of a most interesting man - the stone-age man of thousands of years ago. If it should influence Australians to do something towards curing his ills an ...Show more
Prospecting for Gold by Ion Idriess
$29.95 AUD
Category: Hobbies
The classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors of gold in Australia.
Shoot to Kill by Ion Idriess
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Ion Idriess reveals the secrets of the dead shot. What to do and what not to do are impressed upon the budding rifleman. Written with the imminent threat of Japanese invasion of Australia in 1942, it was for many an opportune book.
Sniping - The Australian Guerrilla by Ion Idriess
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Ion Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on his own experiences in the Gallipoli trenches during World War One. Sing had a reputation as an excellent marksman, lurking in the dark and silently sneaking up on the enemy. One day he was shot by a Turkish s ...Show more