One Wet Season by Ion L Idriess

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair to poor condition. Significant wear to book edge and corners. Stains to covers. The previous owner has signed the title page, which has been redacted in blue pen. Page foredges are foxed and stained. Spine has come away from text body. No dust jacket. Book is in a non-adhesive glossy protective cover. Signed by Ion L Idriess. Still a readable copy.

Fragments from men's lives in the Kimberleys. It is the story of the annual meeting of men from over the Range and along the Fitzroy, at the tiny Port of Derby, there to be isolated for three months, throughout every wet season, just waiting for the Wet to end and the Dry to come.

When these men congregate in Derby for the wet, some of the monotony of the long three months is relieved by the yarning of mates and by the telling of incidents in their own lives. (back cover of later paperback)

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