Over the Range (Idriess book)

{{Short description|1937 book by Ion Idriess}}

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| author = Ion Idriess

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| genre = travel

| publisher = Angus and Robertson

| release_date = 1937

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Over the Range: Sunshine and Shadow in the Kimberley is a 1937 book by Ion Idriess about life in the Kimberley region in Western Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article183526247 |title=STONE AGE MEN Mr. Idriess in the Wild North-West |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=Queensland, Australia |date=11 November 1937 |access-date=16 April 2016 |page=14 (SECOND EDITION) |via=National Library of Australia}}

Idriess records his experiences while accompanying a Nor'-west Mounted Police Patrol for twelve hundred miles through the Kimberleys, north of the Wunaamin-Miliwundi Ranges. Between 1879 and 2020 the ranges were known as King Leopold Ranges.{{Cite web|date=2020-07-03|title=New name confirmed for Western Australia's King Leopold Ranges|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-03/wa-king-leopold-ranges-renamed-wunaamin-miliwundi-ranges/12416254|access-date=2020-07-03|website=www.abc.net.au|language=en-AU}}