Lightning Ridge (book)

{{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 = memoir

| publisher = Angus and Robertson

| release_date = 1940

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Lightning Ridge is a 1940 book by Ion Idriess.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46746953 |title=IN SEARCH OF OPALS. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=56 |issue=16,952 |date=2 November 1940 |accessdate=15 April 2016 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} It was an autobiographical account of part of his life, in particular his time in opal mining in Lightning Ridge.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131998416 |title=BOOKS of the WEEK |newspaper=The News |volume=XXXV |issue=5,384 |location=Adelaide |date=26 October 1940 |accessdate=8 May 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}