Download or read book Flynn of the Inland written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of a classic Australian Pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bush', Ion L. Idriess. Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he travelled on the back of a camel across the vast space of Australia's outback, took a lifetime of courageous commitment to bring to reality. 'It is impossible to read this book and remain untouched by the greatness of John Flynn's inspiration.' - Morning Post, London Ion L. Idriess celebrated Australia's exuberant history in over 50 books, written in an easy conversational style that has made him lastingly popular. In stories such as 'Flynn of the Inland', 'Back O' Cairns' and 'Lasseter's Last Ride', Idriess brings to life the wild beauty of the outback and the many colourful characters who people it.

Download or read book The Works of Ion L Idriess Flynn of the Inland written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flynn of the Inland by Ion L Idriess Foreword by Sir Sidney Kidman and Ronald G Macintyre written by Ion Lwellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flynn of the Inland written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Flynn of the Inland by Ion L Idriess With Forewords by Sir Sidney Kidman and Ronald G Macintyre written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prospecting for Gold written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 20th 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 the bush seeking gold... The "towny" prospector, with this book as a guide, will soon master methods of prospecting and the working of his find.' In an easy conversational tone, the author of Lasseter's Last Ride and Flynn of the Inland sets many a hopeful prospector on the road to discovering gold.

Download or read book Lasseter s Last Ride written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (from The Spectator, May 1936) In his introduction to Lasseter's Last Ride (Cape, 7s. 6d.) Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood writes : "The annals of Central Australian exploration are tragic and heroic, but it is long indeed since I read a more moving story of endurance and heroism in the face of terrific odds than the epic which Mr. Ion Idriess has woven out of the last few months of the life of L. H. B. Lasseter." The reader will agree with this, and wonder why he has not heard of Mr. Idriess before. He is well known in Australia, but this is his first book to be published in England. It will not be his last, if the present one meets with the success it deserves. Having himself been a prospector, the story he has constructed out of the fragments of documentary evidence - a few reports, the barely legible diary and letters found buried near Lasseter's last camps - is probably very close to what actually happened. Harry Lasseter had once discovered a rich gold reef in unexplored west Central Australia. Owing to a faulty watch, the bearings he took were useless. An expedition was fitted out to locate it. From the first, misfortune dogged the steps of the party. Food ran short and they returned to the base-camp - all except Lasseter, who went on alone. When his two camels bolted he was left waterless in the desert. Blinded by sand and tortured by dysentry, he found the reef, but died shortly afterwards, deserted by a tribe of aborigines with whom he had tried to make friends. Mr. Idriess tells this story in a simple, virile style which is, in its intense economy, comparable to Hemingway at his best.

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Download or read book The Silver City written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In The Silver City Idriess also conveys an acute sense of his distress at the despoilation of the natural world by wave after wave of settlers.

Download or read book Flynn of the Inland written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Desert Column written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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 point of view"... Idriess served as a sniper with the 5th Australian Light Horse. Enlisting in 1914, he began his diary "as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli" and he continued writing until returning to Australia... The diaries cover his experience of some of the war's major events from life in the trenches at Gallipoli to the battles at Romani and Beersheba. One of Idriess' strengths as a writer is his ability to place the reader at the scene of the action... The diaries reveal a keenness of observation and a descriptive and pacey style that Idriess would develop further in The Desert Column.' - The Australian War Memorial

Download or read book People Print Paper written by Michael Richards and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Library's major public contribution to the Australian Bicentenary was the travelling exhibition, People, Print & Paper. Celebrating two hundred years of Australian books, this exhibition and the accompanying catalogue bring together a collection of books which gives a fascinating insight into an aspect of Australian life and character which is often overlooked.

Download or read book The Red Chief written by Ion Idriess and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nemarluk written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 three 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. Ion L. Idriess had already brought Lasseter and Flynn to the public's attention with his action-packed stories. He had first-hand knowledge of the courage of Nemarluk and wanted to immortalise the man he called the King of the Wilds. 'Jack [Idriess] understood the depth of Nemarluk's hatred for the Japanese and the white intruders who had come, unasked, into his people's tribal lands of which he was chief. It was not only Nemarluk's desire to protect his people and their lands from the invaders, it was also his obligation and duty.' - Beverley Eley, biographer of Ion L. [Jack] Idriess