Our Living Stone Age
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Boards: good with minor wear. DJ: chipped and worn along the edges. Binding: Remains tight. Clean copy.
Long before the modern world cast its shadow over the ancient continent, Australia's Indigenous peoples lived in harmony with the land in ways that had remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years — and Ion L. Idriess chronicled their world with the eye of a seasoned observer and the pen of a born storyteller. Our Living Stone Age presents a vivid portrait of Aboriginal life as Idriess witnessed it firsthand across the vast Australian outback, detailing the customs, survival techniques, spiritual beliefs, and extraordinary ingenuity of people whose culture predates recorded history by millennia. With the narrative energy that made Idriess one of Australia's most beloved popular writers, the book transports the reader into a world of desert plains, ceremonial fires, and an intimate relationship with nature that Western civilisation had all but forgotten. Idriess writes with the authority of direct experience and an unmistakable reverence for the endurance of the human spirit in its most elemental form. Rooted in the tradition of Australian bush literature, the work stands as a significant historical document — a record of a way of life that was rapidly disappearing even as it was being set down on the page. Idriess's prose is accessible yet richly evocative, blending journalistic observation with genuine wonder, making this volume essential reading for anyone drawn to the deep history of the Australian continent. How much of that ancient world survives today, hidden in plain sight beneath the modern landscape, remains a question that haunts every page.
Author: Ion L. Idriess
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Australian history
Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Boards: good with minor wear. DJ: chipped and worn along the edges. Binding: Remains tight. Clean copy.
Long before the modern world cast its shadow over the ancient continent, Australia's Indigenous peoples lived in harmony with the land in ways that had remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years — and Ion L. Idriess chronicled their world with the eye of a seasoned observer and the pen of a born storyteller. Our Living Stone Age presents a vivid portrait of Aboriginal life as Idriess witnessed it firsthand across the vast Australian outback, detailing the customs, survival techniques, spiritual beliefs, and extraordinary ingenuity of people whose culture predates recorded history by millennia. With the narrative energy that made Idriess one of Australia's most beloved popular writers, the book transports the reader into a world of desert plains, ceremonial fires, and an intimate relationship with nature that Western civilisation had all but forgotten. Idriess writes with the authority of direct experience and an unmistakable reverence for the endurance of the human spirit in its most elemental form. Rooted in the tradition of Australian bush literature, the work stands as a significant historical document — a record of a way of life that was rapidly disappearing even as it was being set down on the page. Idriess's prose is accessible yet richly evocative, blending journalistic observation with genuine wonder, making this volume essential reading for anyone drawn to the deep history of the Australian continent. How much of that ancient world survives today, hidden in plain sight beneath the modern landscape, remains a question that haunts every page.