Idriess's opal prospecting experience at Lightning Ridge. Headhunters of the Coral Sea (1940). Story of the Torres Strait Islands. The Great Trek (1940). Tale of July 1864 expedition to walk from Rockhampton to Somerset Bay near the tip of Cape York Peninsula to establish a settlement, "Somerset". Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941). An indigenous Australian "outlaw" jailed at Fannie Bay Gaol in Darwin. The Great Boomerang (1941). A scheme for developing the Australian outback. The Silent Service Action (1944). Stories of submarine warfare. Written with T.M. Jones. Horrie the Wog-dog (1945). Horrie the Wog Dog's adventures with the AIF in Egypt, Greece, Crete and Palestine. Written with Jim Moody. 1945 to 1969 In Crocodile Land (1946). Travels across Queensland and the Northern Territory, fishing, hunting and trading. Isles of Despair (1947). Story of a shipwrecked Scotswoman (Barbara Thomson) in the Torres Strait Islands. The Opium Smugglers (1947). Chinese opium smuggling on Cape York. Stone of Destiny (1948). Diamond mining and exploration in Australia. Later edition titled The Diamond – Stone of Destiny. One Wet Season (1949). Experiences in the Kimberley Region. The Wild White Man of Badu (1950). Story of a ruthless man's ambition to establish an empire among the islands of the Torres Strait. Complements the author's previous, related book Isles of Despair. Across the Nullarbor (1951). Story of Idriess's own drive across the Nullarbor from Sydney to Perth and return in a Peugeot 203. Outlaws of the Leopolds (1952). A story told from the aboriginal point of view, set in the then known King Leopold Ranges in Western Australia. The Red Chief (1953). A story of Cumbo Gunnerah, Indigenous Australian life and military strategy in New South Wales before European settlement. The Nor'-westers (1954). Story of pioneering in the Kimberley region. The Vanished People (1955). Social anthropology. The Silver City (1956). A history of Broken Hill. Coral Sea Calling (1957). Tales of northern Australia. Back o' Cairns (1958). Story of gold prospecting in the far north. The Tin Scratchers (1959). Story of tin mining in the far north. The Wild North (1960). Stories of the North of Australia. Tracks of Destiny (1961). History and future possibilities for the development of northern Australia. My Mate Dick (1962). Stories and anecdotes of prospecting in Queensland. Our Living Stone Age (1963). A work of popular anthropology. Our Stone Age Mystery (1964). Part-two to Our Living Stone Age. Challenge of the