Ion "Jack" Idriess (1889 - 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having published over 50 books including the Outback tales of Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland, and The Cattle King alongside major histories of Broken Hill, Broome and Cooktown.
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Ion "Jack" Idriess (1889 - 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having published over 50 books including the Outback tales of Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland, and The Cattle King alongside major histories of Broken Hill, Broome and Cooktown.
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This book is the last interview with Ion Idriess, prompted by the the ABC Radio’s Tim Bowden, for a possible ABC Radio program that did not eventuate. Within this book Idriess talks of his early years in Broken Hill, he tells of his earliest writing for the Bulletin, on living and photographing Aboriginal tribes in the Kimberleys and Cape York; on the writing of his books like Madman’s Island and Drums of Mer; his life with the pearlers of Broome and Thursday Island; on the joys of prospecting, living in the Wild, on Lasseter and his diary. Full of colourful characters and true stories, Ion Idriess allows us into his unbridled enthusiasm for Australian and Aboriginal history.
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Tim Bowden is a Sydney broadcaster, journalist, radio and television documentary maker, oral historian and author. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, August 2, 1937, and is married, with two children. He hosted the ABC-TV listener and viewer reaction program 'Backchat' from 1986 to June 1994.He has written 17 books including the best-seller One Crowded Hour. He has made several documentaries for ABC TV, and created the ABC’s Social History Unit.
This book is the last interview with Ion Idriess, prompted by the the ABC Radio_s Tim Bowden, for a possible ABC Radio program that did not eventuate. Within this book Idriess talks of his early years in Broken Hill, he tells of his earliest writing for the Bulletin, on living and photographing Aboriginal tribes in the Kimberleys and Cape York; on the writing of his books like Madman_s Island and Drums of Mer; his life with the pearlers of Broome and Thursday Island; on the joys of prospecting, living in the Wild, on Lasseter and his diary. Full of colourful characters and true stories, Ion Idriess allows us into his unbridled enthusiasm for Australian and Aboriginal history.
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