Hesperian Press

More destruction by the keepers. It is obvious that the keepers of our records are utterly incompetent, devious and destructive. They have little sense of what the records hold and are not particularly interested. Their job is control of our past. It is interesting that this link shows exactly the same excuses and destructive capacity.

 160 year-old Documents Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C.

Government Seizes and Destroys 160-Year-Old Historical Documents

Mould and duplication are the key words common to the archives controllers internationally. Mould, of any description is a death sentence for documents. There should be little problem in controlling such with all the tech we have. There is no attempt to identify the moulds. Some may even be beneficial, ie a dose of penicillin mould would not hurt some of these culturally poxed controllers.  The ontology of book burning: THE YORK BOOKS.

Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire

– portraits and biographies of Australians in the Great War.

ISBN 978-0-85905-568-0, (1922, 2014), illustrated, indexed, 240 x 300, (A4 plus) Section sewn with stiffened soft cover and French flaps, glossed paper, 298pp, 1.4 kg.

$95.00* + POST - Interstate post is $14.80 (express) or $13.40. Perth are $6.50.

This difficult to obtain book was first published in 1922 after a troubled gestation. Many of the original copies have disintegrated due to binding problems. It is now available again in an attractive facsimile edition. Contains over 1450 biographies and illustrations of the soldiers. This is a book that will become a family heirloom.

The Golden Era of Animal Health

The History of Disease Control in Farm Animals in Western Australia 1829 – 1990

by Fred Newman with Alex Williams

ISBN 978-0-85905-574-1, (2014, New), A4, 93pp, illustrated, 280 grams.

$30.00* + POST

Through the years a stock inspector has been; a stockman, bush vet, bush lawyer, and as a public servant committed and dedicated to protecting, improving and enhancing livestock production throughout the State of Western Australia.

Gold Fields Maps of the early 1900s

WA Mines Department

ISBN 978-0-85905-569-7, (1905-8, 2014), A4, 56pp, 180grams.

$22.00* + POST

A reprint of the rare booklets of WA goldfields maps supplied to the early prospectors. Essential for goldfields historians and modern prospectors.

Gim! Gold stealing tales and trials of in the Golden West

By Peter J Bridge

ISBN 978-0-85905-575-8, (2014), A4, 175 pp, 505grams.

$35.00* + POST

Gold stealing was a way of life on the WA goldfields. It still continues in the boardrooms of the corporations in which are ensconced only the 'best' people. In our Darwinian economy only the most brazen and successful thieves survive to rob again. Many Westralian fortunes were and are built on these rorts. But it is usually the small miner who got caught. These latter stories have become part of the folklore of the goldfields.

Lieutenant Bunbury's Australian Sojourn

The letters and journals of Lt. H.W. Bunbury, 21st Royal North Fusiliers, 1834-1837

Edited by JMR Cameron and Phyllis Barnes

ISBN 978-85905-551-2, (2014, New), 298pp, illust., case bound, dj, 685 grams

$70.00* + POST

Henry William St Pierre Bunbury, after whom the City of Bunbury in Western Australia is named, was a professional soldier, the son and nephew of distinguished professional soldiers. He was just 21 years old when he sailed for the Australian colonies in charge of the military guard on the convict transport Susan. Between his arrival in Sydney in July 1834 and his departure in November 1837, he spent 10 months in New South Wales as aide-de-camp to Governor Bourke, 9 months in Van Diemen's Land, and 21 months in Western Australia.

Sand and Stone

Pt 1. Colonists and Convicts

Pt 2. Pastoralists and Prospectors

By Kevin Moran

ISBN 978-0-85905-572-7, ISBN 978-0-85905-573-4, (2000, 2013), A4, 730 pp, Soft cover, illustrated, indexed, 2kg.

$140.00*. + POST

Sold only as a set.

A magnificent overview of the colony from a police perspective. Contains a great deal not available elsewhere.

Vosalevu

Memories of Life in Fiji During Four Decades. 1924-1953

By Reginald Caten

ISBN 978-85905-570-3, (2014, new), 217pp, soft cover, 355 grams.

$45.00 + POST

With a preface by Phillip Snow. A lyrical and entertaining observation of life in the tropics. The stories of the people of various races, their life and foibles are described by a quintessential Englishman whose love of all the islands and their people shines through in a thoroughly readable book for all who either lived in, visited, or merely dreamed of a South Seas paradise. This is Hawaii or Tahiti without the Jmurcans. 

THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS’ DIARIES PROJECT INC.

“Work Completed, Canning”

A Comprehensive History of the Canning Stock Route

1906 – 2010

by Phil Bianchi

ISBN 978-0-85905-549-9, (2013 New), 724pp, 274 photos, 38 maps, casebound, dust jacket, 1kg+

$120.00* + POST

Stiffened soft cover $85.00* + POST

The story of Alfred W. Canning and the development and subsequent use of the 1800 kilometre long Canning Stock Route from Halls Creek to Wiluna is told in this new volume.