
- 124 pages
- English
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Ion Idriess: The Last Interview
About this book
Ion "Jack" Idriess (1889 – 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having published over 50 books including the Outback tales of Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland, and The Cattle King alongside major histories of Broken Hill, Broome and Cooktown. This book is his last interview in 1975, prompted by the then-young Tim Bowden, for a possible ABC Radio program that did not eventuate due to Idriess's fading voice. Within this book Idriess talks of his early years in Broken Hill, he tells of his earliest writing for the Bulletin, on living and photographing Aboriginal tribes in the Kimberlys and Cape York; on the writing of his books like Madman's Island and My Mate Dick; his life with the pearlers of Broome and Thursday Island; on the joys of prospecting, living in the Wild, and on Lasseter and his diary. Full of colourful characters and true stories, Ion Idriess allows us into his unbridled enthusiasm for Australian and Aboriginal history.
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Table of contents
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- 1 - Writing for the Bulletin
- 2 - Madman’s Island
- 3 - Prospecting Cooktown
- 4 - Life with the Aboriginals
- 5 - A Man had his Freedom
- 6 - On Hermits Living in the Bush
- 7 - Writing Books and Notebooks
- 8 - Drums of Mer
- 9 - Early days in the Central West
- 10 - Aboriginals of Cape York and the Kimberleys
- 11 - Lasseter and his Diary
- 12 - On Travelling with Aboriginals
- 13 - Forty Fathoms Deep
- 14 - The Wildest parts of the Bush
- 15 - Pearl Diving off Thursday Island
- 16 - The Hardest Job in the Bush
- 17 - Just an Australian Barbarian
- 18 - Men of the Jungle
- 19 - On Cooktown and the Pierce Brothers
- 20 - Life now
- TIMELINE
- INDEX