Paperbacks
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New Australian Paperbacks
DIG by Frank Clune, the story of the Bourke and Wills Expedition which successfully crossed the Aus tralian continent from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the 1860’s only to meet tragedy on the return journey. “Dig” is what the keepers of the base camp at Cooper’s Creek carved on a tree before they deserted their post. What the survivors found when they dug was not sufficient to save either Bourke or Wills. (Pacific Books; 6/-).
MY MATE DICK by lon L.
Idriess, in which he recollects pioneer gold-prospecting days in the Palmer River and Cooktown areas of North Queensland. (Pacific Books; 6/-).
They Came From The Sea
by the late E. V. Timms. This is one of a series of a dozen novels about the early colonial days in Australia.
Pacific Books; 6/-).
THE IRISHMAN by Elizabeth O’Conner. The story of a wild Irish family in North Queensland but particularly of the father—Black Paddy Doolan, hard-drinking, hard fighting teamster before World War I—and what happened when he found his livlihood threatened by the first motor trucks. (Pacific Books; 6/-). (Pacific Books are published by Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney.)