{"product_id":"2026200015979-secondhand-the-silver-city","title":"The Silver City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342773297371,"sku":"2026200015979-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7374387c-50d9-42b5-96b4-784dbe42c978.png?v=1790049053","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015979-secondhand-the-silver-city","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}