Ion Idriess Talks To The National Library
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Ion Idriess Talks To The National Library
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Author : Ion Llewellyn Idriess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
Ion Idriess Talks To The National Library written by Ion Llewellyn Idriess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with Authors, Australian categories.
Talks about his writing career.
The Desert Column
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Author : Ion Idriess
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2018-10-01
The Desert Column written by Ion Idriess and has been published by ETT Imprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
Radicals
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Author : Meredith Burgmann
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-01
Radicals written by Meredith Burgmann and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with History categories.
The Sixties – an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white film footage – marked a turning point for change. Radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was opposition to the Vietnam War, this anger quickly escalated to include Aboriginal Land Rights, Women’s Liberation, Gay Liberation, Apartheid, Student Power and ‘workers’ control’. In Radicals some of the people doing the changing – including David Marr, Margret RoadKnight, Gary Foley, Jozefa Sobski and Geoffrey Robertson – reflect on how the decade changed them and Australian society forever. Radicals – Remembering the Sixties will make you feel like you were there, whether or not you really were. 'Just like the Sixties, this book is a mesmerising kaleidoscope of unforgettable characters doing brave things.' — Anne Summers 'An exciting time of change that shaped Australia and the world.' — Linda Burney 'Aah, the memories. What a buzz!' — Patricia Amphlett (Little Patty) ‘To achieve the change we desperately need now, it is crucial to look back on how we got the change we take for granted.’ — Craig Reucassel
Self Portraits
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: National Library Australia
Release Date : 1991
Self Portraits written by and has been published by National Library Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.
A selection of 15 interviews with Australian writers by Hazel de Berg, introduced and edited by the novelist David Foster. The original interviews form part of the National Library's Oral History Collection.
Reef Madness
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Author : Ernest Hunter
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2022-06-01
Reef Madness written by Ernest Hunter and has been published by ETT Imprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's a tale that doesn't seem like it would be a winner; an improbable proposition of a ten-mile reef of gold in the middle of the continent, a cabal of scheming investors, a farrago of poor planning and preposterous publicity, the fiasco of the prematurely celebrated triumph of technology over unforgiving terrain, a dead prospector - and no gold. The Central Australian Gold Exploration Company had it all, and Lasseter's Last Ride was in the stores before the final chapter of the real-life debacle had closed. It was a runaway success. Angus and Robertson sold three million copies of Ion Idriess' sixty-some books before he died in 1979. But in 1931, as he was working on what would be Lasseter's Last Ride, he was looking for an angle. In filling the gaps between the few facts with detailed descriptions of lands and people he had never seen, he found it - and promoted it - in Magic and Mystery. Idriess' fictional account of the last months of the life of Harold Bell Lasseter gave birth to a legend that has repeated in dozens of books, films, poems, podcasts, websites and exhibitions, is memorialised in the names of a highway and a casino, and has spawned searches and scams that continue nearly a century later. Idriess was probably surprised at its success and chose not to tamper with a winning formula when inconvenient material soon emerged. To do that he had to control the evidence and continued to insist on his narrative's unimpeachable adherence to fact. Reef Madness exposes how Idriess confected his first successful book and why the story of a failed prospector became a quintessentially Australian myth.
Vicarious Dreaming
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Author : Ernest Hunter
language : en
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Release Date : 2019-05-01
Vicarious Dreaming written by Ernest Hunter and has been published by ETT Imprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Millions of years in the making, sustaining human voyagers and societies for millennia, a couple of centuries of that by Europeans - the Great Barrier Reef - in maybe five or six decades the largest living structure visible from space will have become the largest dead one. Vicarious Dreaming documents a series of personal voyages between Cooktown and the Torres Strait that are interwoven with accounts of exploration, exploitation and escape. The travels and tales coalesce around the works of Ion Idriess and the lives of solitary men at the edge of the world, drawn to the wild by folly and obsession, and to an island in the Howick Group that Idriess knew well and which was the site of his first book - Madman's Island. And as with the slow-motion ecological catastrophe that is the Reef's agonal decline there are players - and bystanders; stories of people and places, of life and death, of arrivals and departures, and of journeys that involve even the most remote, uninhabited spaces - the necklace of islands scattered along more than two thousand kilometres of Queensland's Coral Sea coast. At once a journey into the far north of Australia and into the furthest depths of the human mind. A tale of Cape York's past and a new chapter in the exploration of its present. A dream narrative - maybe; a case study - perhaps; literary art, yes, absolutely, in its purest and most ambitious form. - Nicholas Rothwell
Catalogue Of The Colonial Office Library London
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Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Catalogue Of The Colonial Office Library London written by Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Great Britain categories.
The Public Library Of New South Wales
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Author : NEW SOUTH WALES. LIBRARY. COUNCIL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Public Library Of New South Wales written by NEW SOUTH WALES. LIBRARY. COUNCIL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Libraries categories.
Oral History
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
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Over The Range
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Author : Ion Idriess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07
Over The Range written by Ion Idriess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 Idriess The latest from the pen of the adventurous Ion Idriess is the story of a man-hunting expedition with the North-West mounted police patrol. This took him twelve hundred miles through the Kimberleys, for long an impenetrable region where now a mere handful of white settlers breed cattle and sheep amid tribes of stone age aborigines... A curious point noted by this observant traveller was that though speaking an entirely different lingo, the blacks of the Kimberley were practising rites performed by aborigines 3,000 miles east. Mentally and physically these tribes, otherwise foreign to one another, were the same... He also established the existence of a secret sacred language by which the blacks pass on their innermost thoughts. "With this," he says, "they express their real beliefs, their feelings and mentality, their very selves, their 'sacred' life. And because of it the whites will never lift the veil that shades their mentality from ours." - Brisbane Telegraph, 1937