The Silver City
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the sun-scorched wilderness of outback Australia, Ion L. Idriess resurrects the thunderous saga of Broken Hill — the legendary Silver City — a place where fortune-hunters, miners, and pioneers carved a glittering empire from the unforgiving red earth. The Silver City chronicles the raw, turbulent birth of one of the world's richest silver-mining towns, tracing the sweat, ambition, and heartbreak of the men and women who staked everything on a distant, shimmering promise buried beneath the Australian dust. Idriess brings the frontier to vivid life, painting a portrait of a community forged in hardship, bonded by solidarity, and driven by an almost mythic hunger for wealth. A titan of Australian popular literature, Idriess possessed a storytelling gift that was at once documentary and viscerally dramatic — his prose never lingers where it could charge forward, propelling the reader through history with the momentum of a ripping yarn. The Silver City stands as a testament to his lifelong mission: to immortalise the legends of the Australian outback and its larger-than-life characters before they were swallowed by time. For those who have never visited Broken Hill, this book is a passport; for those who have, it is a reckoning with the almost unbelievable story of how it came to be.
Author: Ion L. Idriess
Format: Paperback
Published: 1964, Angus and Robertson / Pacific Books
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the sun-scorched wilderness of outback Australia, Ion L. Idriess resurrects the thunderous saga of Broken Hill — the legendary Silver City — a place where fortune-hunters, miners, and pioneers carved a glittering empire from the unforgiving red earth. The Silver City chronicles the raw, turbulent birth of one of the world's richest silver-mining towns, tracing the sweat, ambition, and heartbreak of the men and women who staked everything on a distant, shimmering promise buried beneath the Australian dust. Idriess brings the frontier to vivid life, painting a portrait of a community forged in hardship, bonded by solidarity, and driven by an almost mythic hunger for wealth. A titan of Australian popular literature, Idriess possessed a storytelling gift that was at once documentary and viscerally dramatic — his prose never lingers where it could charge forward, propelling the reader through history with the momentum of a ripping yarn. The Silver City stands as a testament to his lifelong mission: to immortalise the legends of the Australian outback and its larger-than-life characters before they were swallowed by time. For those who have never visited Broken Hill, this book is a passport; for those who have, it is a reckoning with the almost unbelievable story of how it came to be.