PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.
Port Hedland to Carnarvon by Buckboard
by Daisy Bates.
ISBN 978-0-85905-722-6, (R, 2018), A5, $10.00*
Potjostler.
The life of William Carr Boyd. Explorer, Prospector, and Raconteur.
By Peter J Bridge, Ian Elliot, Ian Murray, and Gail Dreezens.
ISBN 978-0-85905-854-4, (2021), A4, french flaps, illustrated, 453 pages, 1.3kg, $80.00*
A documentary biography and history of one of Australia’s most interesting and amusing explorers and bushmen (1852-1925).
Published jointly with the Laverton Shire and under the aegis of the Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project as an ancillary volume. Laverton Great Beyond shop. HP for mail order.
The Price of a Pearl
by Rod Dickson
ISBN 085905 297 4, (2002 new), Soft Cover, section sewn, illustrated, 204 pages, 270grams
$30.00 + POST
Incidents of pearling life, shipwrecks and murders in the North West of Western Australia, never before told.
Prisoners of the Past
Compiled by Calliope Bridge, Celene Bridge, Angela Teague, Mark Chambers & Tom Hogarth
ISBN978-0-85905-657-1, (New, 2017), A4, fully illustrated and indexed, 329 pages, 900 grams
$60.00* + POST
All the mugshots of prisoners released from Fremantle Gaol from 1899 to 1919, over 3850, and fully indexed. A unique picture of the past showing the features of those who had transgressed. Interestingly, non-Europeans, apart from the obligatory Aboriginals, form a far larger proportion of the prisoners than their kind would represent as a percentage of the whole population.
Producer Gas Plants
Hoskins Foundry
ISBN 978-0-85905-664-9, (New, 2017), 55 pages, illustrated, A4, 150 grams
$25.00* + POST
Reprint of ultra-rare catalogue of industrial downdraft gas producers from over a century ago.
Prospecting Memories
of Alan Payne and Mates.
ISBN 978-0-85905-784-4, (New, 2020), A4, illustrated, 87 pages, 410 grams, $35.00*
The results and adventures of 40 years of detector prospecting statewide.
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Prospecting Poultry - Land of Forests, Fleas and Flies - Jack Sorenson and his Lost Verse
by Peter J. Bridge with Gail Dreezens
ISBN 0 85905 411 X, (2007 New, e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol.1, Nos. 1-3.), 34 pp, saddle, Soft Cover, A4, 135grams
$20.00* + POST
The habit of chooks to eat bright gold grains led to some interesting incidents on the fields. The development and effect of a catchy doggerel verse that has had wide echoes. A collection to add to our Ghosts of Bayley Street.
The Pump
by Marshall Walker
ISBN 085905 323 7, Softcover, A4, 40pp, illustrated, 130grams
$16.50* + POST
Life on No 7 Pumping Station on the goldfields' pipeline in the early 1950s.
The Pearl Station on the NW Coast
by Richmond Thatcher.
ISBN 978-0-85905-707-3, (R, 2018), A5, $10.00*