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Back o' Cairns - Trekking the Cape York Peninsula by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
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 ((various roles), Editor, Preface by, Designed by)
Category: Australiana
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
Headhunters of the Coral Sea by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Preface by, Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
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
In Crocodile Land - Wanderings in Northern Australia by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
Category: Australiana | Series: 3rd
"In Crocodile Land" is principally the story of travels by lugger through northern waters and into slimy creeks where the huge crocodiles abound. The author took part in many hunting expeditions and enlightens us on the various methods adopted for catching these fearsome creatures. The party had more th ...Show more
Lasseter's Last Ride - An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor, Designed by)
Category: Australiana
The true story of Harold Bell Lasseters discovery of a massive gold reef in Central Australia, his venture into the interior to find it again using camel, trucks and aeroplane; and his disappearance, lost among Aboriginal tribes in the Central Desert. The 51st edition, now in Imprint Classics.
Lasseter's Last Ride - The 50th Edition by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
Category: Australiana
Lightning Ridge: The Land of the Black Opals by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor, Designed by)
Category: Australiana
Now in Imprint Classics, 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 breaker, horse tai ...Show more
Nemarluk - King of the Wilds by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor, Designed by)
Category: Australiana
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))
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))
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
Prospecting for Gold by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor, Designed by)
Category: Australiana | Series: Imprint Classics Ser.
'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.' And so Jack Idriess wrote Prospecting for Gold in 1931. This is the 21st edition and known throughout Australia as the classic self-help manual for would-be prospectors.T ...Show more
The Vanished People by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson ((various roles), Editor, Designed by)
Category: Australiana
Ion Idriess documents the mysteries and customs of the Aboriginal people from Oenopelli in the Kimberley to the Torres Strait Islands.