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Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 Headhunters of the Coral Sea
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Adventures of two boys, survivors of the wrecked ship the Charles Eaton.

Notes

  • Also available in braille format.
  • Publisher's blurb for this title is on the back cover of the digitised copy of Blinky Bill Joins the Army.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Pagination varies between reprints.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1940 .
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      Extent: 196p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1941 , 1946 , 1947 , 1944 , 1948 , 1951
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1955 .
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      Extent: 207p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1957
      Note/s:
      • Illustrations by Walter Stackpool.
    • Exile Bay, Drummoyne - Concord area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: ETT Imprint , 2024 .
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      Extent: 130p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published March 2024

      ISBN: 9781923024755

Works about this Work

Armchair Tourism : The Popularity of Australian Travel Writing Richard White , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 182-202)
'Richard White examines the 'uneasy relationship' between the genre of travel writing and the notions of the popular. He considers the way in which 'Australian travel writers negotiated the pitfalls of popularity' and argues that 'a number of Australian writers broke with these conventions and willingly embraced the popular.' He takes Frank Clune and Colin Simpson as case studies to examine how their writing courted a popular mass market in Australia and created a genre where ordinary tourist was hero.' (Editor's foreword xiv)
Fiction, Nonfiction and the Limits of Faction Gary Crew , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 19 no. 2 2004; (p. 8-10)
Cannibalising Indigenous Texts : Headhunting and Fantasy in Ion L. Idriess's Coral Sea Adventures Robert Dixon , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Body Trade : Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific 2001; (p. 112-125, notes 254-255)
Untitled 1940 single work review
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 21 December 1940; (p. 10)

— Review of Headhunters of the Coral Sea Ion L. Idriess , 1940 single work children's fiction
Untitled 1940 single work review
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 21 December 1940; (p. 10)

— Review of Headhunters of the Coral Sea Ion L. Idriess , 1940 single work children's fiction
Fiction, Nonfiction and the Limits of Faction Gary Crew , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 19 no. 2 2004; (p. 8-10)
Cannibalising Indigenous Texts : Headhunting and Fantasy in Ion L. Idriess's Coral Sea Adventures Robert Dixon , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Body Trade : Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific 2001; (p. 112-125, notes 254-255)
Armchair Tourism : The Popularity of Australian Travel Writing Richard White , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 182-202)
'Richard White examines the 'uneasy relationship' between the genre of travel writing and the notions of the popular. He considers the way in which 'Australian travel writers negotiated the pitfalls of popularity' and argues that 'a number of Australian writers broke with these conventions and willingly embraced the popular.' He takes Frank Clune and Colin Simpson as case studies to examine how their writing courted a popular mass market in Australia and created a genre where ordinary tourist was hero.' (Editor's foreword xiv)
Last amended 20 May 2024 13:15:12
Subjects:
  • Coral Sea, South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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