The Wild North

<p>In these pages Ion Idriess has brought together stories gathered and lived in his happy battling years in the wild lands of Australia's Far North and the islands beyond. Stories of gold and pearls of land and cattle of the search for wealth in dangerous and lonely places. Stories of unnamed men and women white and brown and black of primitive passions unleashed far beyond the curb of law and order of bravery and hope and grim determination of the strange powers of the mind of human comedy and tragedy. Together they picture a life of colour and adventure that with the development of the continent is rapidly passing away.</p>