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At 81 time is short and our backlog great.

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We have had several queries from overseas translators checking whether we are advertising for translators.

Criminally inclined Chinese operators are using a close adaption of our name in a @gmail account to solicit such work.

We have observed Chinese gangsters trying it on for our name in the past.

In the past we have noted Chinese criminals involved in book stealing rackets in Western Australia. 

They were just in advance of the criminally destructive policies of the State Library.

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SEARCHING.

 On our downloadable booklist is a limited subject index. After each entry in [ ] are letters indicating general subjects. These are for the States. WA, NT, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS, Q. Areas of WA – K (Kimberley), CAN (Canning), NW, MUR, CEN, SW, WAR (Warburton), EUC (Eucla). See the map (page 2) delineating these. Also PNG, NZ, USA, AFrica, CA Canada, OS overseas. MIL military, MAR maritime, AIR aviation, ANI animals, AB aboriginal, MIN minerals – mining, geology, minerals, BIO biography, BIOL biology, H health+, VER verse, COM comic, CON convicts, EX exploration, AFG afghans, FOR Forestry, WOO woodlines, PAS pastoral & droving, POL police, crime, CSR Canning SR, TRAN transport, ART art

Place the required subject, eg. [MIL] in your search bar and drop down through the list. Eventually we will combine all the individual book indexes on the website as a massive master index for search

This Home Page list is the new releases. 

See the Main Booklist for full details.

We have rarely changed the prices upwards on our books. Plenty have been discounted.

However, with a combination of declining sales, declining stocks, and greatly increased production costs some changes are necessary.

Reprinting of many core titles has generally not been viable. But when we do this the runs are much smaller.

So costs per copy are higher. So usually these will have reduced trade discounts, marked with a * on the listed price.

We are on the tail end of the following titles, Black and white, Yammaji, Youanme.

The prices of the remaining stock are now raised to fit in with the new pricing if/when we reprint. All are now rrp $40.00*

Most of our titles will not be reprinted when they become out of print. Then the rare book sellers will have a field day.

Philosophy lessons.
 

"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
 

"Censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is weak."—Julian Assange.
 

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."—Marcus Aurelius

Why multiculturalism must be annihilated in Australia

By Dr. Stephen Chavura, January 22, 2025

As above, so below.

That’s worse than it sounds in Canada. Canada’s literary scene is very Soviet. The entire thing is supported by government funding, and one’s existence within it has precisely nothing to do with market demand for one’s work – which is generally nonexistent for CanLit – and everything to do with maintaining a good reputation amongst the literary councils, which in turn rests upon saying only the Approved Things in any and all public and private circumstances. That cozy Stalinist cloister of cynically disingenuous literary incest is exactly as effective at producing compelling literature as you’d expect.

Must reads on the joys of multiculturalism:- https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net; UNZ.com

 COMING SOON 

Camden Harbour history. Graeme Blake.

Death at Dawn. Rod Moncrieff.

The Stockdale saga.

Swan River letters vol 2 Ian Berryman.

Leo Gugeri biography. Michael Gugeri.

Fairbairn’s Fiasco. Ed Peter J. Bridge

Ian Murray autobiog. Ian Murray.

Amongst the Savage Natives of Western Australia. Muccan, Yarrie, Braeside & Warrawagine in the 1890s.

Albert Edward Finlay.

ISBN 978-1-875778-68-3, (1921 R 2025), A4, indexed, 26pp, 100grams, $22.00*

The memoirs of the Christopher Coppin’s nephew published obscurely in South Aust in the 1920s. Critical information on incidents in the North. Discovery of gold east of the Oakover. [AB] [NW] [PAS]

The Aborigines of earliest Albany. An annotated index to the published 1830-31 journal of Captain Collet Barker.

Neville Green, Mary Anne Jebb and Mark Chambers.

ISBN 978-1-923560-33-8, (new, 2026), A4, 91 pages, illustrated, 275 grams, $35.00*

An important and useful reference for early Albany to mark the 200^th year of European settlement in Western Australia.

Little of relevance has been published or is proposed for publication by the comatose state and local governments to mark this occasion.

However we at Hesperian, aware of the low cultural IQ of those in power have been preparing relevant publications for public enlightenment.

Captain Collet Barker’s diaries, published as Commandant of Solitude, were prepared by John Mulvaney and Neville Green, Hesperian Press, 2021

John Sweetman’s The Military Establishment and Penal Settlement at King George Sound. Hesperian Press 1989.

Also to mark the Anniversary is William Thacker and New Holland. Peter Bridge and Richenda Bridge. Hesperian Press 2026. This details the life of the first British settler in WA who arrived as a convict on the Amity in 1826. All the rest of that ‘first fleet’ returned to NSW. Thacker left for the Swan River, marrying a girl from the Rockingham. His great grandfather had visited Western Australia in 1688 with William Dampier on the Cygnet.

Carr Boyd. A Serendipitous Discovery.

William Carr Boyd.

ISBN 978-1-875778-72-0. (New, 2026) A5, 5pp. $10.00.

An interesting letter from the archives where Carr Boyd applies for a job as protector of Aboriginals in the NW of WA. To go with the book, Potjostler.[ BIO]

Desert Explorations. A History of the Central Deserts 1847-1929.

Peter J. Bridge and Mark Chambers.

ISBN 978-1-675778-87-4, (New, 2026), A4, 551 pages, indexed, 2.1kg, $110.00*

A systematic collection of the diaries, reports, records etc of those who explored the great deserts of WA, NT and SA, with hundreds of expeditions and travellers recorded. This is not a coffee table of flash but an essential volume of the WA Exploration Diaries Project. Most of the material has not been, or rarely, been seen before. Compiled from the systematic collections of the editors. [BIO] [SA] [NT] [WAR] [NW] [CAN] [K] [CEN] [MUR] [EUC] [AB [MIN] [BIOL] [EX] [AFG] [PAS]

Elsewhere Fine.

Karl Dimer.

ISBN 978-1-875778-52-2, (1989, R 2026), 140 x 220, 473 pages, illustrated, indexed, 860 grams, $80.00*

Karl’s story of the founding of and life on Namanbinia Station near Balladonia on the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain. This book has been out of print for many years, the funds of both the author and the current publisher being somewhat limited. This is an unaltered facsimile edition of an important bush history for both the settlers and the aboriginal people of the area. [CEN] [EUC] [BIO] [AB] [MIN] [AFG]

Explorers Routes Revisited.

Lesley Brooker

Lesley Brooker’s beautiful and brilliant ecological studies of WA explorer’s travels have been reprinted in a small edition. All are in full colour with numerous illustrations.

Roe 1836. ISBN 978-1-923560-35-2. A4, 170 pages, 760 grams, 60.00*,

Moore 1836 & Drummond 1841-42. ISBN 978-1-923560-34-5. A4, 152 pages, 138 pages, 700 grams, $56.00*,

Clarkson 1864. ISBN 978-1-923560-36-9. A4, 650 grams, $56.00*,

Giles 1875. ISBN 978-1-923560-37-6. A4, 202 pages, 870 grams, $75.00*

The Goanna Patch. The discovery of a rich gold show north of Leonora by native stockmen in 1958.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-923560-49-9, (New, 2026), A4, 30 pages, well illustrated, 130 grams, $25.00*

The famous Goanna Patch discovery created much interest. Previously unseen photos of the time and news and govt files are used to record the event and its aftermath.

Jinkers and Whims. A pictorial history of timber getting.

Jack Bradshaw.

ISBN 978-1-923560-30-7, 122 pages, A4, heavily illustrated, Revised new edition. 650 grams, $45.00*

A magnificent book. The instant I saw a copy of the first edition I was captivated.

This is an essential record of the timber getting in the SW of WA. Horses and bullocks, men, mills and machines and trees, trees, and timber. Almost every photo is a masterpiece in itself. A great labour of love by the author handing on the stories of generations of timbermen.

Lonehand - Gold in the Blood. A true Australian adventure story.

By Joe Houldsworth

ISBN 978-1-923560-42-0, (New, 2026), 160x240mm, 155pp, illustrated, $35.00*

This is a true Australian adventure story about a young migrant determined to embrace the Australian way of life and make his fortune prospecting. Though taking a lot longer than expected, he finally made it with a spectacular gold discovery in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, and the birth of a new Australian gold mining company, Ramelius Resources Ltd.

“Lonehand: Gold in the Blood” started out as a memoir for family and friends but grew into something more. You can’t get more Australian than Joe’s account of his adventures in the Australian bush, culminating in the discovery of the Wattle Dam Gold Mine, one of Australia’s highest grade gold mines and the founding of a new Western Australian Gold Mining Company.

The Lubra and the Ferret. Sea tales of the south and west coasts.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-923560-39-0, (New, 2026), A4, 16 pages, illustrated, 100 grams, $22.00*

Several recently acquired water colours from the 1890s - early 1900s of Adelaide Steamship Company ships are illustrated together with the story of the ships and their demise. Both served on the west coast.

Major Logue’s Diaries of Ellendale. (1850-1900)

Transcribed and edited by Dr Nan Broad.

ISBN 978-1-923560-29-1, (2026, New), A4 in two volumes, french flap cover, illustrated, 1124 pages, 3kg, $360.00*

Note – The price is merely a token of the costs of production. The diaries are published for the historical record. Postage will use the AP 5kg satchels.

These unique colonial diaries of Major Logue who settled Ellendale on the Greenough have been the object of much angst by the usual gang of whacked out literary(?) terrorists. The Guardian rag fulminated at length over the possibility of the omission of the code in which the author recorded the settler’s reactions to the attacks of the local tribes. These codes are fully detailed in facsimile. The records of these attacks are also being prepared for publication. The cannibal crimes and spearings are not publicised by the proto-revolutionary state funded researchers and publishers. To them only the White man is racist and reprehensible. That’s what the Bolsheviks said before committing the greatest mass murders of the 20^th century. The serial crime families are solidly represented among the activists. Readers - You have been warned!

After many years of work these volumes will shortly be available in a very limited edition. Circulation will be at the copyright owner’s discretion and severely restricted. Inevitably there will be complaints about the availability, but the whiners are not paying the bills. Interested persons are requested to apply to the publisher for consideration of supply.

The Mineralogical Research Papers of Peter J Bridge 1968-1991.

Peter J Bridge.
ISBN 978-1-875778-99-7, (New, 2025), A4, 146 pages, illustrated, 620 grams, $ 50.00*

The collected papers describing new and rare minerals, mainly from Western Australia. Includes an illustrated biographical reminiscence of the author’s time at the WA Government Chemical Laboratories and notes on his fellow workers. [BIO] [MIN] [CEN] [EX] [AB] [TRAN]

Notes on the Aborigines of Roebuck Bay, W.A. 

Ada Janet Peggs.

(1903 R 2026), ISBN 978-1-923560-57-4, A4, 45 pages, illustrated, 180 grams, $35.00

Records of the Broome area aboriginals made in 1898-1901. [K], [AB],

A Record Droving Trip. Across Australia with Walter H. Rose. John Fanning. Ed by Peter J Bridge & Gail Dreezens.

ISBN 978-1-923560-62-8, (1905 RN 2026), A4, indexed, 56 pages, 180 grams, $35.00*

The great 1905 drove from Kimberley to Queensland.

[K][NT][Q][AB][BIO][PAS][PNG][OS]

The Quartermaine expedition diaries.

Keith Quartermaine.

ISBN 978-1-923560-00-0 to 978-1-923560-24-6, A4, ~1800  pages, illustrated, 5.6kg, $912.00

Between 1952 and 1975 Keith Quartermaine compiled extended detailed and illustrated reports and maps of the travels of his team of Kalgoorlie School of Mines friends and local bushmen. The first organised exploration of the Nullarbor caves; out to the edge of the desert; and along the little travelled areas of the south coast. The later diaries are records of their hunt for meteorites mainly in the eastern goldfields area. The reports and photographs record the areas before the disturbances of modern mining. The local people and station life are well recorded. Twenty sets only of the 25 reports have been printed. They range from 25 to 152 pages.  Perhaps, if there is interest and pre-orders, consideration will be given to sales of individual items. [CEN] [EUC] [BIO] [EX] [MIN] [AB] [PAS] [TRAN]

Quartermaine expedition reports.

1. The Inland Sea or Carry on Regardless. Nullarbor caves 1952. 152pp. $65.00*

2. The Woodall Expedition. Nullarbor caves 1953. 103pp. $50.00*

3. Queen Victoria's Spring and Streich's Mound. 39pp. $22.00*

4. Pimpernal Baxter. Nullarbor south coast. 107pp. $50.00*

5. Follow the Leader. Nullarbor south coast. 65pp. $35.00*

6. Mount Ragged and Israelite Bay in Retrospect. 48pp. $25.00*

7. Stardust. Meteorite hunting. 103pp. $50.00*

8. Mrs Ethel Simmons. Cook and Sinclair families. 51pp. $30.00*

9. Operation Pannikin. Meteorite hunting. 63pp. $35.00*

10. Some Fella Bin Took ‘em. The Story of the Mt Egerton Meteorite. 61pp. $35.00*

11. Cleaning up Australia and Avoca. Meteorite hunting. 77pp. $40.00*

12. Flanagan (The Wiluna Meteorite) and Credo, Fenbark and Wildara. 66pp. $35.00*

13. Lightning Does Strike Twice. Nullarbor Walkabout. Meteorites. 111pp. $50.00*

14. The Grey Ghost. South Yilgarn. 67pp. $35.00*

15. At Last. Baxter memorial. 31pp. $22.00*

16. Don't let me Disturb You (Cleaning up the Malga North Shower). Fraser Range, Ularring & Menangina. 115pp. $50.00*

17. Shades of Gray. Meteorites. 20pp. $22.00*

18. The Fringe Dwellers. Meteorite hunting. 81pp. $40.00*

19. The Byro Ring. Gascoyne. 38pp. $22.00*

20. The Hobza and Trailer. More about the Billy Goat Donga Meteorite Shower. 74pp, $40.00*

21. Tinned Dog. Yerilla area and australites. 78pp. $40.00

22. Shades of JPB. Balbinia and Israelite Bay. 111pp $45.00*

23. The Laverton Affair. 21pp. $22.00*

24. A Remarkable Story. N of Kalgoorlie. Meteorites. 56pp. $30.00*

25. Deleted.

26. Wangalli. NE of Kalgoorlie. 30pp. $22.00*

Some account of a brumby-trap.
LB Jupp.

ISBN 978-1-923560-41-3, (R, 2026), 10pp, $10.00.

An account of brumby trapping at the back of Mundaring in the early 1900s.

Under the Coolibah Tree.

G.F. Young.

ISBN 978-1-923560-45-1, A5, 304 pages, well illustrated, 600 grams, $40.00*

The interesting life of Gordon Young who experienced the WA gold rushes as a prospector, miner, and general bush hand, rising to mine managing where he made his mark. Eventually he became a well-known writer and broadcaster out of Victoria. A great story.

The Wanderer. A life in the Australian Outback. Frank Hugh Hann 1845-1921. Pastoralist Bushman Explorer Prospector.

Ian Elliot and Rod Beaumont.

ISBN 978-1-923560-28-4, (New, 2026), A4, 460 pages, illustrated, indexed, 1.8 kg, $110.00*

A magnificent book of the bush and its people, mainly set in Queensland and Western Australia. Heavily illustrated with both B&W and colour photographs and many maps of Hann’s travels. [NT] [WA] [SA] [QLD] [EXP] [K] [CD] [AB] [MIN] [BIO] [PAS] [NW] [WAR] [CEN] [CAN] [EX]

War on the Sand Plain

by Graham McKenzie-Smith

In early 1942 Imperial Japan rapidly advanced, capturing Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. Japanese planes attacked Darwin, Wyndham, Derby, Broome, Port Hedland and Exmouth.

Where were they coming next ?

HQ 3 Aust Corps believed that the Japanese would first land at Geraldton to capture the port and airfield before advancing south to capture Fremantle. There was no Brand Highway or Indian Ocean Drive and the only track to the coast between Yanchep and Dongara from the main road through Moora went to Jurien Bay, via Dandaragan.

On 10 April the 1,600 men of Special Mobile Force arrived at Mingenew without notice as the start of an influx of soldiers to the sand plain between Perth and Geraldton.

By August some 20,000 men were deployed on the sand plain between Perth and Geraldton with brigade groups (~4,000 combat soldiers) at Geraldton, Mingenew, Dandaragan and Gingin, while HQ 4 Infantry Division and their support troops occupied Moora and supply depots were set up at Mullewa and Morawa.

The troop numbers reached a peak of 32,000 in August 1943 when the 160 tanks, 150 tracked vehicles and many hundreds of trucks from 1 Armoured Division roamed around Moora and Dandaragan, while HQ 2 Infantry Division was established outside Geraldton, with brigade groups at Geraldton, Mingenew and the Swan Valley.

The four books of the 'war on the sand plain' series detail the movements and activities of the 306 Army units, with 47,300 men, that occupied 290 camp sites in the region. Also detailed are the 37 coast watch posts established to give warning of any enemy activity along the coast.

Researched by Graham McKenzie-Smith whose first book 'Australia's Forgotten Army – Vol 1 – The Ebb and Flow of the Australian Army in Western Australia – 1941 to 1945' first alerted West Australians to the huge build up of the Army in the West. In these books he expands on this by including the movements and operations of all units, at all locations, down to the Supply Depot Platoons, Field Post Offices and concert parties.

The 'war on the sand plain' books are published by Hesperian Press and Grimwade Publications. They are available at locations on 'the sand plain' or can be supplied from the publishers. Send your order (with contact details) to either :-

Hesperian Press Grimwade Publications

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1. The Army comes to Northampton, Geraldton and Mullewa $25 + $5 postage

2. The Army comes to Dongara, Mingenew and Morawa $25 + $5 postage

3. The Army comes to Jurien Bay, Dandaragan and Moora $25 + $5 postage

4. The Army comes to Gingin and Wanneroo $25 + $5 postage

5. Set of four books $90 + $15 postage

Western Australia Handbook 1912.

ISBN 978-1-923560-43-7, (1912, R, 2026), A4, Illustrated, ~300pp, 1.2kg, $86.00

A magnificent overview of WA in 1912. Produced by the government to promote tourism and investment in WA. Few copies remained in WA as the books were distributed in the eastern states.

A fitting companion to the previously reprinted Cyclopedias etc.

Wild West Ives. Alfred Oliver Cromwell Ives. Prospector, Explorer, Rabbit Proof Fence Boundary Rider and Engineer.

Phil Bianchi, Peter Bridge, Gail Dreezens.

ISBN 978-1-875778-70-6, (New, 2026), A4, 84 pages, illustrated, 400 grams,  $40.00*

Known as ‘Wild West’ for his armaments after being speared in his blankets by the savages east of the Oakover River in the 1930s. His father was a successful prospector. He explored the desert on camels and found many mineral deposits that in recent times made major companies exceedingly wealthy. Later he created an engineering company that produced electric water heaters. He was a friend of the second author’s father. [BIO] [MIN] [CEN] [CAN] [PAS]