The Silver City

by Ion L. Idriess

Broken Hill in the early 1900s was a hell on earth. In his 1956 book The Silver City, which draws on his childhood experiences in Broken Hill, he produces some of his most evocative writing to describe it:
Flies and dust and isolation, the deadening feeling that no-one else in the world knew or cared whether we lived or died out there, typhoid, pneumonia, dysentery and lead poisoning had to be put up with; so did the dirty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1922384828
• ISBN13: 9781922384829
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: ETT Imprint
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"