Tracks of Destiny by Ion L. Idriess

Tracks of Destiny

by Ion L. Idriess

Angus and Robertson, 1961
First edition
Black and white photographic plates, b/w photographic frontispiece
Hardcover

Condition: Very good
Some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages, marks and discolouration on covers and spine. (see photographs)

“Up on the pub veranda Womba Billy the teamster raised his bloodshot eyes to the sun and beat his chest and roared.  The wet season was over, and for everyone in the tiny port of Derby – including Womba, who had spent the Wet getting drunk and thinking he was a scrub bull – life was beginning again.  Black men and white men were preparing to wander far and wide through the rugged Kimberley’s and the vast Northen Territory.  Many of the white men were answering the call of gold, as news came of finds, particularly in the developing goldfields of Tennant’s Creek.”

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