Back O' Cairns by Ion Idriess

Back O' Cairns by Ion IdriessIn this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as "Gouger" for the Bulletin. In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler's axe, his own day to day experiences, and the district's historical background. The book is peopled by characters given to polite chiacking and the

'Each time I've learned something important and surprising about myself and my work

Can you think of a more important lesson for your students

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon

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and social problems that have inadvertently been left in the wake of our collective past

An impossible mission

and be alarmed and enlightened

I say out loud

he was living his dream

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Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him