Isles of Despair

{{Short description|Book by Ion Idriess}}

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| author = Ion Idriess

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| genre = historical novel

| publisher = Angus and Robertson

| release_date = 1947

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Isles of Despair is a 1947 historical novel by Ion Idriess based on the true story of Barbara Thomson, a white woman who was the sole survivor of a shipwreck and was raised by Coral Sea islanders, before being rescued in 1849.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42544842 |title=LITERARY NOOK |newspaper=Cairns Post |issue=14,181 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=16 August 1947 |accessdate=16 April 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142379608 |title="Isles Of Despair" |newspaper=Western Herald |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 August 1947 |accessdate=16 April 2016 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19470823&id=zQhFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vL0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7146,5200200&hl=en|title=The Age - Google News Archive Search}}

It had a follow-up, The Wild White Man of Badu.