MAN TRACKS By Ion L. Idriess
Readers of Lasseter's Last Ride will welcome a new book by Mr. Idriess, chronicler of life in the wilder places of Australia. He is not a journalist ex- ploiting the story possibilities of his country, but a writer trying to record phases of the rapidly changing life of Australia. In Man Tracks (Cape, 75. 6d.) he tells of the fight of the Mounted Police against the lawlessness of the North-West. He makes us see and hear the men engaged in this grim business, and gives us the feel of those vast deserts and mountain ranges which are the setting for their struggle with mail-robbers, murderers and rebel- lious blacks. Mr. Iciness knows what he is writing about, having spent twenty- five years wandering in the interior, meeting and living with the men who are the subjects of these stories : and to verify his facts he has just made a special journey of i x,000 miles. Apart from a few lapses into the mannerisms of the Western thriller, he writes with a vigour and economy most suitable to his material.
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