Nemarluk: King of the Wilds

Nemarluk: King of the Wilds

Author	Ion Idriess
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre	biography
Publisher	Angus and Robertson
Publication date	1941

Nemarluk: King of the Wilds is a book by Ion Idriess about aboriginal warrior Nemarluk.^[1][2]

Idriess met Nemarluk twice and had previously written about him in a section of his 1935 book Man Tracks. Nemarluck died in August 1940 prompting Idriess to write a book focusing on him.^[3]

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:

Mr. Idriess has a good tale to tell—a tale of courage, animal cunning and resource, devotion to a dimly conceived ideal, and death. The confusion wrought in the aboriginal groups by the, to them, incredible treachery of the members of the tribe who accept money from the white man for information, and the use of that peculiar sensitiveness that makes the black man such an excellent "tracker", affords material for interesting conjecture. The reader who is quite unversed in aboriginal lore would, too, find much to interest him In the accounts of tribal customs and racial prejudices.^[4]

References

1. "Features". The Canberra Times 70, (21,990) (Australian Capital Territory, Australia). 2 July 1995. p. 19. Retrieved 16 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "Idriess on Native Tragedy". The Telegraph (Queensland, Australia). 22 November 1941. p. 5 (Second Edition). Retrieved 16 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
3. Bruce Shaw, 'Nemarluk (1911–1940)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nemarluk-11222/text20009, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 16 April 2016.
4. "KING OF THE WILDS". The Sydney Morning Herald (32,419) (New South Wales, Australia). 22 November 1941. p. 10. Retrieved 16 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.