One Wet Season by Ion L. Idriess

One Wet Season

by Ion L.  Idriess

Angus and Robertson, 1949, [First Edition], black and white photographic plates, illustrated back endpapers (maps) hardcover

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, front endpaper and half title page removed, cracked hinge at front endpaper, rubbing, marks and discoloration to covers and spine, tears to spine, no inscriptions, age toned pages (see photographs)

“One Wet Season is not really a “story”.  It comprises fragments from men’s lives, of our present day, as lived in our own Australian Kimberleys.  It is a story of the yearly or perhaps rather seasonal, meeting of men, form “over the range”, and “along the Fitzroy”, at the tiny port pf Derby, there to be isolated for some three months throughout every wet season, just waiting for “the Wet” to end, and “the Dry” to come.  It is a seasonal phase known only to the extreme north of Australia, particularly to the north-west.”

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