Ion Idriess

Coral Sea Calling (eBook, ePUB)

Pioneer Tales of Australia's Northern Waters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The treacherous and beautiful Coral Sea is the background for this story of the nineteenth century adventurers on perilous voyages into its waters in search of the bêche-de-mer and pearl shell; of the savage chiefs who ruled its islands; of the seamen who charted it; of the explorers struggling up the Queensland coast; a tale of the taming of the wilderness and its people.
...as in all Idriess books, there is always something good somewhere; and here it is the two chapters on Jemmy the Hook, who had had both hands chopped off by mutinous islander-crews, and who returned with iron hooks instead of hands to take a gruesome vengeance on yet another mutinous crew; it is a story which calls all the Idriess descriptive powers into play, and the reader avid of blood-and-guts can be assured of exactly that. - The Bulletin, 1957
As so often in Australian letters, an initial fall into obscurity and harsh judgments of the literary establishment serve as good indicators of a writer's pre-eminence. - Nicholas Rothwell, The Australian, 2017

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ETT Imprint
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781922698568
• Artikelnr.: 67704206