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  • Horrie the Wog-Dog
    Ion Idriess
    Horrie the Wog Dog was the unofficial mascot for the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion of the Second Australian Imperial Force. An Egyptian terrier, the dog was befriended by James Bell Moody serving in the unit when it was stationed in Egypt during the Second World War. The dog subsequently followed the battalion throughout various locations in the Middle East and in Greece and Cret...
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    24,48 €

  • Back O’ Cairns
    Ion Idriess
    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 axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district’s historical background....
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    24,35 €

  • Nemarluk
    Ion Idriess
    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 attempt to put an end to Nemarluk's fight.Jack Idriess understood the depth of...
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    22,46 €

  • Prospecting for Gold
    Ion Idriess / TBD
    '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.This book is written to help the new hand who ventures into t...
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    22,30 €

  • The Yellow Joss
    Ion Idriess
    First published in 1934, here are more classic tales from Ion Idriess, who explored Australia, chasing down the stories of a changing continent: 'The stories in this volume record happenings or incidents in men’s lives which interested me during years of wandering among the bushmen and natives of Cape York Peninsula; the pearlers, trochus and beche-de-mer getters of the Coral S...
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    18,83 €

  • Lasseter’s Last Ride
    Ion Idriess
    First published in 1931, and now in its 51st edition. With extracts from Lasseter’s Diary and Letters and maps and photographs of the C.A.G.E. Expedition.Morning Post (London) - 'Perhaps the greatest of Australia’s real life epics.'Otago Daily Times (NZ) - 'One almost finds it difficult to believe that the story is modern and true.'Sydney Mail - 'One of the most graphic, most p...
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    18,95 €

  • Headhunters of the Coral Sea
    Ion Idriess
    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 D’Oyly, were survivors from the wreck of the Charles Eaton on the Barrier Re...
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    19,08 €

  • The Desert Column
    Ion Idriess
    Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine during WW1The Desert Column is based on the diaries that Idriess kept throughout the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess’ earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was 'viewed entirely from the private soldier’s poi...
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    27,74 €

  • The Wild North
    Ion Idriess
    In these 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 unnamed men and women, white and brown and black, of primitive passions unleashed far beyond t...
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    18,95 €

  • Ion Idriess Letters
    Ion Idriess
    In 1932 Idriess was described as ’a slight, medium-sized man, with a narrow, pale face, slightly greying hair and remarkable hazel eyes; a soft-voiced man with a typical Australian drawl.’ He was also a highly motivated writer. He said of himself that he wrote ’like stinking hell,’ spending two hours every morning covering quarto pages of white paper with large handwriting at a...
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    22,91 €

  • Coral Sea Calling
    Ion Idriess
    The treacherous and beautiful Coral Sea is the background for this story of the nineteenth century adventurers on perilous voyages into its waters in search of the bêche-de-mer and pearl shell; of the savage chiefs who ruled its islands; of the seamen who charted it; of the explorers struggling up the Queensland coast; a tale of the taming of the wilderness and its people....as...
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    22,29 €

  • In Crocodile Land
    Ion Idriess
    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 than a little success, to the great glee of the blackfellows who accompanied the...
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    22,26 €

  • Back O’ Cairns
    Ion Idriess
    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 axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district’s historical background....
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    24,35 €

  • Tracks of Destiny
    Ion Idriess
    In 1932, Ion Idriess was one of those who set out from tiny port of Derby with the ending of the Wet season, moving through the rugger Kimberleys towards the developing goldfield of Tennant’s Creek. This is the story of his wanderings in the 1930s 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...
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    24,55 €

  • Over the Range
    Ion Idriess
    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 and allowing him to retain his liberty, I shall be glad. - Ion IdriessThe late...
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    24,56 €

  • Outlaws of the Leopolds
    Ion Idriess
    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 great prowess in the Kimberleys before he suddenly turned against the whites...
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    24,48 €

  • The Desert Column
    Ion Idriess
    Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine during WW1The Desert Column is based on the diaries that Idriess kept throughout the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess’ earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was 'viewed entirely from the private soldier’s poi...
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    27,74 €

  • Men of the Jungle
    Ion Idriess
    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 lived in two worlds, the white and the black. The deep inner life of the native...
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    18,98 €

  • The Scout
    Ion Idriess
    Throughout all the game of war, in every Age, there has been no task so fascinating, so alive with thrills, as that of the scout. Against an enemy army he plays a lone hand as does the sniper. But the scout’s job is not to hide and kill, his is to press forward and see, but never be seen. And - he must return.Ion Idriess’s Australian guerrilla manual presents a rare insight int...
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    22,55 €

  • Man Tracks
    Ion Idriess
    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 recorded from the lips of the pursuers and pursued whether white, black, or brown. ...
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    18,80 €

  • Trapping the Jap
    Ion Idriess
    ’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, burn their airfields. To be a hawk by day and a shadow by night, to be a kil...
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    22,50 €

  • Lurking Death
    Ion Idriess
    Abdul the Sniper was the pride of the Turkish Army. They named his rifle ’The Mother of Death’. Because, so declared the Ottoman Guard, ’her breech gave birth to bullets which destroy the lives of men’...Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is...
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    22,31 €

  • Headhunters of the Coral Sea
    Ion Idriess
    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 D’Oyly, were survivors from the wreck of the Charles Eaton on the Barrier Re...
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    19,08 €

  • Gouger of the Bulletin
    Ion Idriess
    This second volume of ’Gouger’ contains more of the early writings of Ion Idriess, many written under his various pseudonyms that were previously not located with the great story-teller. Most of these stories, articles and paragraphs have never been in book form until now, and are the result of much pain-staking research by Idriess scholar, Jim Bradly. As always with Idriess, t...
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    25,54 €

  • Guerrilla Tactics
    Ion Idriess
    Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is one of six manuals written for soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent.Here Mr Idriess gives in illustrative detail the technique of guerrilla warfare under Australi...
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    22,63 €

  • Lightning Ridge
    Ion Idriess
    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 breaker, horse tailer, shearer - and of his wanderings to the opal mines of Lightn...
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    24,72 €

  • The Wild White Man of Badu
    Ion Idriess
    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 Norfolk Island, had, through a reign of terror and treachery, cowed the...
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    18,80 €

  • The Yellow Joss
    Ion Idriess
    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, lived with them, before the contemp...
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    18,83 €

  • Nemarluk
    Ion Idriess
    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 attempt to put an end to Nemarluk's fight.Jack Idriess understood the depth of...
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    22,46 €

  • The Silver City
    Ion Idriess
    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 whether we lived or died out there, typhoid, pneumonia, dysentery and lead pois...
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    22,28 €


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