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The Cattle King by Ion L Idriess
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King.
The Desert Column by Ion Idriess
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
One of the most popular accounts by an Australian veteran of WWI--written entirely from the private soldier's point of view. "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. Pu ...Show more
The Red Chief by Ion Idriess
$29.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
The Aboriginal legend of the Red Kangaroo, Cumbo Gunerah (1680-1745), who as a result of his bravery becomes leader of the Gunnedah tribe. The story originated from Stan Ewing's diary who spoke to King Bungaree (1780-1830), the last Aboriginal chief of the Gunnedah tribe in New South Wales.
The Red Chief by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
In times past there was an Aboriginal man called Cumbo Gunnerah His people called him The Red Kangaroo. He was a clever chief and a mighty fighter (this man from Gunnedah) Later, the white people of this place called him The Red Chief. It would be hard to find a more satisfying hero than the young warri ...Show more
The Scout - The Australian Guerrilla Series #6 by Ion Idriess
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Silver City by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Broken Hill in the early 1900s was a hell on earth. In his 1956 book The Silver City, which draws on his childhood experiences in Broken Hill, he produces some of his most evocative writing to describe it: Flies and dust and isolation, the deadening feeling that no-one else in the world knew or cared wh ...Show more
The Wild White Man of Badu - A Story of the Coral Sea by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This true story came from the ship's log of the HMS Rattlesnake under the command of Captain Owen Stanley... who was searching for the Kennedy expedition... sailing the Coral Seas searching for men in the peninsula ranges, and Barbara Thompson was captive on Murralug; Billy Winn, an escaped convict from ...Show more
The Yellow Joss by Ion Idriess; Tony Grey (Introduction by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Set mainly in the deep north of Australia, this collection of fictional short stories which were previously published in the Brisbane Daily Mail, the Bulletin and the Sunday Sun (Sydney) was first published in 1934. Illustrated.
The Yellow Joss by Ion Idriess; Tony Grey (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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. Idri ...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
Trapping the Jap - The Australian Guerrilla Series #4 by Ion Idriess
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'To attack and ambush, to snipe and raid is the job of the Australian Guerrilla. By rifle and grenade, by machine-gun and mortar to kill them, harry them, trap them, grant them not one moment's peace day or night. Break their hearts Smash their outposts, blow up their tanks, bomb their communications, b ...Show more