
In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as "Gouger" for the Bulletin. In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula...

Ion Idriess, Australia?favourite adventure writer, went to North Queensland prospecting at a time when the fabulous country ack o?airns?as being opened up. It was a time when the great jungle scrubs were falling to the settler?axe, new towns were springing up as mineral wealth...


