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Ion L. Idriess (1889–1979)

Autor(a) de Flynn of the Inland

62 Works 816 Membros 7 Críticas 3 Favorited

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Image credit: Ion L. Idriess, c. 1940-1941 / by unknown photographer

Séries

Obras por Ion L. Idriess

Flynn of the Inland (1932) 89 exemplares
Lasseter's Last Ride (1931) 55 exemplares
The Cattle King (1808) 54 exemplares
The Desert Column (1933) 50 exemplares
The Red Chief (1953) 42 exemplares
Drums of Mer (1933) 26 exemplares
Lightning Ridge (1940) 25 exemplares
The silver city (1964) 25 exemplares
Back o' Cairns (1958) 24 exemplares
Forty Fathoms Deep (1937) 23 exemplares
Horrie the Wog Dog (1945) 19 exemplares
The great boomerang (1945) 18 exemplares
One wet season (1950) 17 exemplares
Men of the jungle (1943) 15 exemplares
The Wild White Man of Badu (1950) 15 exemplares
Man Tracks (1935) 14 exemplares
Isles of despair (1947) 14 exemplares
Stone of destiny (1948) 11 exemplares
Nemarluk, king of the wilds (1995) 10 exemplares
Outlaws of the Leopolds (1952) 9 exemplares
Prospecting for gold (1931) 9 exemplares
The nor'-westers (1954) 8 exemplares
Madman's Island (1941) 8 exemplares
THE YELLOW JOSS and Other Tales (2020) 7 exemplares
Headhunters of the Coral Sea (2020) 7 exemplares
The vanished people 7 exemplares
The Opium Smugglers (1948) 7 exemplares
The Scout (1985) 7 exemplares
Coral Sea Calling (1980) 5 exemplares
Fortunes in Minerals (1941) 4 exemplares
Shoot to kill (2020) 3 exemplares
Trapping the Jap (2020) 3 exemplares
Our Stone Age Mystery (1964) 3 exemplares
The wild North (1960) 2 exemplares
Gems from Ion Idriess 2 exemplares
Diamond: Stone of Destiny (1970) 1 exemplar
Tracks of destiny 1 exemplar
Guerrilla tactics (2020) 1 exemplar
Our living stone age (1963) 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Idriess, Ion Llewellyn
Data de nascimento
1889-09-20
Data de falecimento
1979-06-06
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Australia
Local de nascimento
Waverley, New South Wales, Australia
Local de falecimento
Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Locais de residência
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ocupações
Sniper - WW1

Membros

Críticas

The Red Chief is thought to have died around 1745. There are not many (if any) such detailed or accessible Indigenous histories of the period before European settlement. It has long baffled me that this important Australian transcription of an oral history is relatively unknown.

This, my second reading of this gripping story was prompted by the engrossing [b:Rachel: Brumby hunter, medicine woman, bushrangers' ally and troublemaker for good . . . the remarkable pioneering life of Rachel Kennedy|61298029|Rachel Brumby hunter, medicine woman, bushrangers' ally and troublemaker for good . . . the remarkable pioneering life of Rachel Kennedy|Jeff McGill|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1655359396l/61298029._SY75_.jpg|96656745], another historical dimension to the Warrumbungles where I live that included Mary Jane Cain. It is the story of how The Red Chief or Gambu Ganuurru became a chief of the Gamilaraay, of his journey into the Warrumbungles to steal women, his inventive and strategic brilliance, as well as a compelling insight into daily Indigenous life pre-European settlement.

Ion Idriess wrote from the perspective of the times before the Gamilaraay culturally reconstructed, so there are cringeworthy comments about Stone Age Man. Nevertheless, his adaption of the Ewing Papers is accurate enough to be both true to the original and full of page turning tension.

As described in Idriess's Introduction, the Ewing Papers refer to the source of the story as told by Old Joe Bungaree, a local Aboriginal elder. Police Sergeant J. P. (John Peter) Ewing and his youngest son Stanley wrote the notes, or a first recension, in about 1890. Some of the stories were taken down directly by the Sergeant as Joe Bungaree related them, others came from notes made by the Sergeant but afterwards transcribed by Stanley. Stanley drew on his memories, as a boy aged nine, when the chief’s grave was dug up.

The Ewing Papers have their own story. Back in 1975 I just missed seeing them when their custodian had died days before I arrived in Gunnedah. They are now available on-line but are only accessible inside a rabbit hole of intriguing research.
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simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 |
Written during the depression. A guide for everyman to look for gold and the tools and "machines" needed for its recovery.
 
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historybuff174 | May 14, 2017 |
Couldn't get into this. Got to pp 46, looked at the rest of the pictures, read an episode that caught my eye, put it down. Of course I didn't like the condescension toward the aboriginal people, but I put that down to the ignorance of the time. And I didn't understand that the white men were regarded as heroes because they were gold-seekers. I guess it had something to do with the nation of Australia needing the gold, but still it was kinda weird and ugly. But my biggest difficulty lay with the writing style - very dry, hardly any dialogue, too many references to things/places not in the reader's knowledge base, more like just a sketched chronicle.… (mais)
 
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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | 1 outra crítica | Jun 5, 2016 |
the beautiful cover art made this a must buy in the second hand bookstore. Unfortunately, the book jumped around too much and never gained momentum. Some nice passages, but too stop start. Interesting as a history read though. Plenty of casual racism despite Broome being one of Australia's first example of a multicultural society along with the goldfields. Some interesting insights for the time on attitudes towards whales, fisheries management and development.
 
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kenno82 | May 1, 2015 |

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Obras
62
Membros
816
Popularidade
#31,253
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
7
ISBN
156
Línguas
4
Marcado como favorito
3

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