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Book by Ion Idriess

Men of the Jungle
fourth edition (1933)
Author	Ion Idriess
Language	English
Publisher	Angus and Robertson
Publication date	1932
Publication place	Australia

Men of the Jungle is a 1932 book by Ion Idriess. It covered three years in the life of Idriess and his three companions as they worked in north-east Queensland.

Reception

The book was published in September 1932 and had to be republished almost immediately.

Idriess later claimed the book was his favourite because it reminded him of the most idyllic time of his life.

References

"MEN OF THE JUNGLE". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 29, 561. New South Wales, Australia. 1 October 1932. p. 8. Retrieved 28 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
"NEW NOVELS". Western Champion. No. 415. New South Wales, Australia. 22 September 1932. p. 6. Retrieved 16 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
Idriess biography
Interview with Ion Idriess", ABC

v t e Works by Ion Idriess
Novels	Madman's Island (1927) Drums of Mer (1933) Forty Fathoms Deep (1937) Isles of Despair (1947) The Wild White Man of Badu (1950) The Red Chief (1953)
Instructional	Prospecting for Gold (1931) Cyaniding for Gold (1939) Fortunes in Minerals (1941) Opals and Sapphires (1967)
Biographies	Lasseter's Last Ride (1931) Flynn of the Inland (1932) The Cattle King (1936) Horrie the Wog-dog (1945)
Autobiography	The Desert Column (1932) Men of the Jungle (1932) Madman's Island (1938) (revision) Lightning Ridge (1940) Back o' Cairns (1958) The Tin Scratchers (1959) My Mate Dick (1962)
History	Gold Dust and Ashes (1933) Man Tracks (1935) The Silent Service (1944) Stone of Destiny (1948) Outlaws of the Leopolds (1952) The Nor'-westers (1954) The Silver City (1956) Coral Sea Calling (1957)
Short story collections	The Yellow Joss (1934) The Wild North (1960)
Travel	Over the Range (1937) In Crocodile Land (1946) One Wet Season (1949) Across the Nullarbor (1951) Tracks of Destiny (1961)
Political	Must Australia Fight? (1939) The Great Boomerang (1941) Onward Australia (1943) Challenge of the North (1969)
Children's books	Headhunters of the Coral Sea (1940) The Great Trek (1940) Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941) The Opium Smugglers (1947)
Australian Guerilla series	Australian Guerilla – Shoot to Kill (1942) Australian Guerilla – Sniping (1942) Australian Guerilla – Guerilla Tactics (1942) Australian Guerilla – Trapping the Jap (1943) Australian Guerilla – Lurking Death (1943) Australian Guerilla – The Scout (1943)
Anthropology	The Vanished People (1955) Our Living Stone Age (1963) Our Stone Age Mystery (1964)

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