Lightning Ridge
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Beneath the scorched red earth of outback New South Wales lies a world of obsession, fortune, and hardship — and Ion Idriess knew it intimately. Lightning Ridge chronicles the author's vivid firsthand experiences among the eccentric opal miners who carved out a lawless, sun-bleached existence at one of Australia's most legendary opal fields in the early twentieth century. With the keen eye of a born storyteller, Idriess presents a cast of weathered, larger-than-life characters — dreamers and desperadoes united by the seductive glimmer of the prized black opal — painting an unforgettable portrait of a community existing entirely on the knife-edge of luck. A cornerstone of Australian bush literature, Lightning Ridge illustrates Idriess's signature style: direct, muscular prose infused with a deep reverence for the land and the indomitable spirit of those who dare to wrestle a living from it. Published as part of the respected A&R Non-Fiction Classics series, this work stands as both a social document and an adventure narrative, preserving a vanished chapter of Australian frontier life. For anyone drawn to the raw mythology of the outback, this is an irresistible dispatch from the edge of the known world.
Author: Ion Idriess
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Beneath the scorched red earth of outback New South Wales lies a world of obsession, fortune, and hardship — and Ion Idriess knew it intimately. Lightning Ridge chronicles the author's vivid firsthand experiences among the eccentric opal miners who carved out a lawless, sun-bleached existence at one of Australia's most legendary opal fields in the early twentieth century. With the keen eye of a born storyteller, Idriess presents a cast of weathered, larger-than-life characters — dreamers and desperadoes united by the seductive glimmer of the prized black opal — painting an unforgettable portrait of a community existing entirely on the knife-edge of luck. A cornerstone of Australian bush literature, Lightning Ridge illustrates Idriess's signature style: direct, muscular prose infused with a deep reverence for the land and the indomitable spirit of those who dare to wrestle a living from it. Published as part of the respected A&R Non-Fiction Classics series, this work stands as both a social document and an adventure narrative, preserving a vanished chapter of Australian frontier life. For anyone drawn to the raw mythology of the outback, this is an irresistible dispatch from the edge of the known world.