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Drums of Mer by Ion Idriess
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Set around the Torres Strait in the mid-1800s, Ion Idriess tells the story of the lives and mythologies of the local people, depicting the fate of Europeans shipwrecked among the islands.
Lasseter's Last Ride - An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
With Foreword by Herbert Basedow, M.D., B.Sc., author of The Australian Aboriginal, extracts from Lasseter's Diary and Letters and photographs of the 1930 Expedition. Morning Post (London) - "Perhaps the greatest of Australia's real life epics." Otago Daily Times (NZ) - "One almost finds it difficult ...Show more
Men of the Jungle by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Created by, Editor, (various roles))
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
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
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
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military
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 Gallipoli Series by Ion Idriess
$30.00 AUD
Category: Military
Artist Geoff Harvey has won The Gallipoli Prize twice, and the current vedition of The Desert Column by Ion Idriess holds last year's winning work. Harvey is showing a survey of 50 paintings of his Gallipoli sequence, from Enlisting, through Landing, through the campain to final embarkation. It is very ...Show more
The Red Chief by Ion Idriess
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
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.
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