Man Tracks
Book by Ion Idriess
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Author | Ion Idriess |
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Language | English |
Genre | historical |
Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1935 |
Publication place | Australia |
Man Tracks, with the mounted police in the Australian Wilds is a 1935 book by Australian author Ion Idriess about the mounted police in north west Western Australia.[1][2]
It includes profiles on Aboriginal outlaws and leaders such as Joe Flick, Nemarluk and Minmara; the murder of Traynor and Fagan off Woodah Island; the spearing of Constable McColl; the ambushing of Hemming's patrol; the killing of the Japanese of the luggers' Ouida, The Myrtle, The Olga and the Raff; the spearing of Stephens and Cobb.[3][4]
Idriess later wrote a follow-up, Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941).
References
- ^ Book information at Idriess fan site
- ^ REAL LIFE ROMANCE H K S. The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette (1870-1941) [Shanghai] 14 Aug 1935: 284.
- ^ "MAN TRACKS". The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 13 April 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 15 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "WITH THE TRACKERS". The Northern Herald. Vol. 90, no. 1152. Queensland, Australia. 11 May 1935. p. 33. Retrieved 17 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
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Works by Ion Idriess
- Madman's Island (1927)
- Drums of Mer (1933)
- Forty Fathoms Deep (1937)
- Isles of Despair (1947)
- The Wild White Man of Badu (1950)
- The Red Chief (1953)
- Prospecting for Gold (1931)
- Cyaniding for Gold (1939)
- Fortunes in Minerals (1941)
- Opals and Sapphires (1967)
- Lasseter's Last Ride (1931)
- Flynn of the Inland (1932)
- The Cattle King (1936)
- Horrie the Wog-dog (1945)
- The Desert Column (1932)
- Men of the Jungle (1932)
- Madman's Island (1938) (revision)
- Lightning Ridge (1940)
- Back o' Cairns (1958)
- The Tin Scratchers (1959)
- My Mate Dick (1962)
- Gold Dust and Ashes (1933)
- Man Tracks (1935)
- The Silent Service (1944)
- Stone of Destiny (1948)
- Outlaws of the Leopolds (1952)
- The Nor'-westers (1954)
- The Silver City (1956)
- Coral Sea Calling (1957)
- The Yellow Joss (1934)
- The Wild North (1960)
- Over the Range (1937)
- In Crocodile Land (1946)
- One Wet Season (1949)
- Across the Nullarbor (1951)
- Tracks of Destiny (1961)
- Must Australia Fight? (1939)
- The Great Boomerang (1941)
- Onward Australia (1943)
- Challenge of the North (1969)
- Headhunters of the Coral Sea (1940)
- The Great Trek (1940)
- Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941)
- The Opium Smugglers (1947)
series
- The Vanished People (1955)
- Our Living Stone Age (1963)
- Our Stone Age Mystery (1964)
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