{"product_id":"the-silver-city-paperback","title":"The Silver City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIon Idriess\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroken Hill in the early 1900s was a hell on earth. In his 1956 book \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Silver City\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, which draws on his childhood experiences in Broken Hill, he produces some of his most evocative writing to describe it: \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Silver City\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e Idriess also conveys an acute sense of his distress at the despoilation of the natural world by wave after wave of settlers...\u003cbr\u003e - Yvonne Preston, \u003cem\u003eThe Canberra Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47902710431965,"sku":"9781922384829","price":31.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/MdTofA-MDr9781922384829.webp?v=1778436169","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-silver-city-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}