One Wet Season

Book by Ion Idriess

One Wet Season

First edition

Author| Ion Idriess
Language| English
Genre| travel
Publisher| Angus and Robertson

Publication date

| 1949
Publication place| Australia

One Wet Season is a 1949 book by Ion Idriess about life in the Kimberley region of Western Australia[1] during the wet season of 1934. The book records true stories of the lives of the pioneers and Aboriginals of the Kimberley, centring predominantly on those living in the King Leopold Ranges and spending the wet season in the town of Derby, Western Australia.

## References

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1. ^ "BOOK REVIEW "ONE WET SEASON"". The South-western News. Vol. XLVII, no. 2351\. Western Australia. 15 December 1949. p. 9. Retrieved 16 April 2016 - via National Library of Australia.

## External links

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* Chapter one of serialisation of book
* One Wet Season at AustLit
* Serialised in Western Herald \- 20 April, 27 April, 4 May, 11 May, 18 May, 25 May, 1 June, 8 June, 15 June, 22 June, 29 June, 6 July, 13 July, 20 July, 3 August, 10 August

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Works by Ion Idriess

Novels|

* Madman's Island (1927)
* Drums of Mer (1933)
* Forty Fathoms Deep (1937)
* Isles of Despair (1947)
* The Wild White Man of Badu (1950)
* The Red Chief (1953)

Instructional|

* Prospecting for Gold (1931)
* Cyaniding for Gold (1939)
* Fortunes in Minerals (1941)
* Opals and Sapphires (1967)

Biographies|

* Lasseter's Last Ride (1931)
* Flynn of the Inland (1932)
* The Cattle King (1936)
* Horrie the Wog-dog (1945)

Autobiography|

* The Desert Column (1932)
* Men of the Jungle (1932)
* Madman's Island (1938) (revision)
* Lightning Ridge (1940)
* Back o' Cairns (1958)
* The Tin Scratchers (1959)
* My Mate Dick (1962)

History|

* Gold Dust and Ashes (1933)
* Man Tracks (1935)
* The Silent Service (1944)
* Stone of Destiny (1948)
* Outlaws of the Leopolds (1952)
* The Nor'-westers (1954)
* The Silver City (1956)
* Coral Sea Calling (1957)

Short story collections|

* The Yellow Joss (1934)
* The Wild North (1960)

Travel|

* Over the Range (1937)
* In Crocodile Land (1946)
* One Wet Season (1949)
* Across the Nullarbor (1951)
* Tracks of Destiny (1961)

Political|

* Must Australia Fight? (1939)
* The Great Boomerang (1941)
* Onward Australia (1943)
* Challenge of the North (1969)

Children's books|

* Headhunters of the Coral Sea (1940)
* The Great Trek (1940)
* Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941)
* The Opium Smugglers (1947)

Australian Guerilla
series|

* Australian Guerilla – Shoot to Kill (1942)
* Australian Guerilla – Sniping (1942)
* Australian Guerilla – Guerilla Tactics (1942)
* Australian Guerilla – Trapping the Jap (1943)
* Australian Guerilla – Lurking Death (1943)
* Australian Guerilla – The Scout (1943)

Anthropology|

* The Vanished People (1955)
* Our Living Stone Age (1963)
* Our Stone Age Mystery (1964)

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