My Mate Dick by Ion L. Idriess Iraq History was office-in-charge of Alice Springs

was office-in-charge of Alice Springs telegraph station from 1899 to 1908

cropping and abstracting the original film stills

the final decade of the old millennium

dustjacket front pastedown to front cover

My Mate Dick by Ion L. Idriess Iraq History was office-in-charge of Alice SpringsMy Mate Dick by Ion L. Idriess Angus and Robertson, 1962 First edition Black and white photographic plates, b w photographic frontispiece Hardcover Condition: Very good Some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, pp. 67 and 69 torn and separate but still complete, age toned pages, small tears at spine. (see photographs) Cape York Peninsula, still one of the wildest regions in Australia, was wild indeed when young Jack