Back O’ Cairns by Ion L. Idriess

Back O’ Cairns

by Ion L. Idriess

Angus and Robertson, 1994
Lightly illustrated with maps, b/w illustrated frontispiece and introductory maps
Paperback

Condition: Good
Some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-lib with stickers and stamps to back endpapers, sticker to spine, some tears and creasing to covers and spine, some markings to introductory pages (see photographs)

“Ion Idriess, Australia’s favourite adventure writer, went to North Queensland prospecting at a time when the fabulous country ‘Back O’ Cairns was being opened up; when the great jungle scrubs were falling to the settler’s axe, and when new towns were springing up as mineral wealth was discovered and the new railway pushed inland.  It was a time when the talk around the campfires was full of the exciting exploits of the great pathfinders – men like Mulligan, Doyle, Atherton and Palmerston – and of the search for a route from the coast to the hinterland, bound up with the rivalry of the three ports of Cardwell, Port Douglas and Cairns.”

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