Man Tracks
Appearance
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Author | Ion Idriess |
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Language | English |
Genre | historical |
Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1935 |
Publication place | Australia |
Man Tracks, with the mounted police in the Australian Wilds is a 1935 book by Australian author Ion Idriess about the mounted police in north west Western Australia.[1][2]
It includes profiles on Aboriginal outlaws and leaders such as Joe Flick, Nemarluk and Minmara; the murder of Traynor and Fagan off Woodah Island; the spearing of Constable McColl; the ambushing of Hemming's patrol; the killing of the Japanese of the luggers' Ouida, The Myrtle, The Olga and the Raff; the spearing of Stephens and Cobb.[3][4]
Idriess later wrote a follow-up, Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941).
References
[edit]- ^ Book information at Idriess fan site
- ^ REAL LIFE ROMANCE H K S. The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette (1870-1941) [Shanghai] 14 Aug 1935: 284.
- ^ "MAN TRACKS". The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 13 April 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 15 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "WITH THE TRACKERS". The Northern Herald. Vol. 90, no. 1152. Queensland, Australia. 11 May 1935. p. 33. Retrieved 17 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.