{"product_id":"the-silver-city-ion-idriess-9781923205819","title":"The Silver City","description":"\u003cp\u003eBroken Hill in the early 1900s was a hell on earth. In his 1956 book \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Silver City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, which draws on his childhood experiences in Broken Hill, he produces some of his most evocative writing to describe it: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eFlies 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 brown water, so frightfully expensive, that in drought time came rumbling up in water trains from South Australia. When I think of air-conditioning and painless dentistry and hearken back to the memory of those days - what a wonderful story is in the medical, transport, electrical, chemical and technical discoveries that have done away with such an ocean of pain and death...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Silver City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Idriess also conveys an acute sense of his distress at the despoilation of the natural world by wave after wave of settlers...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Yvonne Preston, \u003cem\u003eThe Canberra Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ion Idriess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1923205811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781923205819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ETT Imprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d","brand":"Ion Idriess","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50664395505919,"sku":"9781923205819","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-silver-city-ion-idriess-9781923205819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}