Hesperian Press

Where Fortunes Lay

A Personal Story of the Birth of Kalgoorlie

by A.J. Macgeorge (edited by Michael Macgeorge)

ISBN 0 85905 194-3, (1993 new), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 186 pp, illustrated, 250grams,

$22.00 + POST

Where Fortunes Lay is the personal, first hand story of an adventurous young mans search for fortune in the vast dry interior of Australia in the 1890s.

Where is Brown Hill?

by Amy Moore

ISBN 0 85905 128 5, (1989 new), Soft Cover, 60pp, 115grams

$16.50 + POST

Brown Hill was a small mining community t’other side of Kalgoorlie.  Now covered with mullock heaps of the new open cuts, this township and its people are recorded by Amy Moore, born and bred in this forgotten goldfield’s village.

Where on the Coast is That?

 by Ian Murray with Marion Hercock

ISBN 978-0-85905-452-2, (2008 new), Soft Cover, 350 pp, 910 grams

$50.00* + POST

Contains the names, location, origin, namer, and description of **** coastal place names of Western Australia. "Owing to the geographical location of Western Australia at the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean, its coastal features have more than the expected Aboriginal and English place names. This is because the first European names were bestowed by Dutch navigators in the 1600s, then by English and French navigators before settlement by the English in the 1820s. The place names applied speak volumes about the motives of navigators in selecting names.

Where There's Smoke There's Fry

The true story of an amazing man - Alf Fry

by Chris Hales

ISBN 0 85905 259 1, (1999 new), Soft Cover, 196pp, illustrated, 270grams

$22.00 + POST

From the battlefields of Gallipoli to the Karri Country of the South West of Western Australia, Alfred Narroway Fry lived a remarkable life. So remarkable the reader will conclude that he had more lives than a cat.

White blacks and black whites

edited by P.J. Bridge A. Teague & G. Dreezens

ISBN 0 85905 436 5, (2008 new), A4, Soft Cover, 34pp, illustrated, 130grams

$22.00* + POST

From the 1830s to the 1890s many strange stories about whites amongst the blacks came in from the frontiers. Albinos, lost explorers or shipwreck survivors? This intriguing collection is from Western Australia.

White Feather

The Story of Kanowna

by Margaret Bull

ISBN 0 85905 111 0, (1987 reprint of 1981 edition with new material), 145mm x 210mm, Soft Cover, 111 pp, 180grams

$22.00 + POST

White Feather is the story of the old goldfield town of Kanowna, from the time gold was found by Jerry McAuliffe in October 1895 through to the 1980s.

Kanowna, originally known as White Feather, was in its heyday one of the richest goldfields in Western Australia outside the famous Kalgoorlie-Boulder golden mile.

White Feather is a social history concerned with the discovery of gold and the early years on the find, life and conditions at Kanowna during its rapid growth, the steady decline of the field after the end of the 1890s, and some of the more important figures involved in the town's history.

Wilgie Mia

Cave of Red Ochre and Raddled Ranters

By Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-0-85905-702-8, (New, 2018), A4, illustrated, indexed, 100+ pages, ** grams

$30.00* + POST

A history of the discovery of the cave, early mining, and the industry that grew around it. Also an examination of the Wadgela myths of the sacred cave, which are less believable than those of the Aboriginal dreamtime. Wishful thinking guides government policy resulting in closure and restriction as the home for a red elephant.

William Campbell Charnley, 1882-1966

A bibliography

Compiled by Peter J Bridge.

[ISBN 978-0-85905-227-6], (2011, New), 20pp, illust, 50grams

$10.00* + POST

Charnley was a prolific writer, from 1915 to 1966, primarily on Western Australian history, publishing “close to a million words” by 1951 in magazines and newspapers. In Australia these were The Bulletin, The Lone Hand, The Australian Journal, The Western Mail, The Countryman, The Western Mail, Famous Detective Stories, and the Australian Life. Overseas were the Wide World, Blackwood’s, History Today, and The Windsor Magazine. He wrote on subjects where he was close to those involved in incidents of bush history and so has a viewpoint that is not accessible to those who are solely working from archives, or are literary creationists.

William Dugald Campbell

Western Australian Ethnographic Papers

by W. D. Campbell

ISBN 978-0-85905-622-9, (R, 2015), A4, 86pp, illustrated, 260grams

$35.00* + POST

W. D. Campbell, an English geologist working in New Zealand and Australia undertook pioneering ethnographic work in the Eastern Goldfields, North West and Murchison.

This collection is of rare and difficult to obtain papers that are little known to those interested in such material. The items on churingas and phallic objects are sure to 'raise' an interest in those so oriented.

William Ford & Coolgardie

by Alice Kathleen Clemenson

ISBN 0 85905 118 8, (1988 new), Soft Cover, 151pp, illustrated, 340grams

$22.00 + POST

The biography of the discoverer of Coolgardie.  Copiously illustrated.

William White, Convict 9348

Discoverer of the Eastern Goldfields

by P J Bridge and Graham Gath

ISBN 978-0-85905-461-4, (2008), Soft Cover), A4, 35 pp, illustrated, 130grams

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William (Milky) White pegged the first gold claim in 1885 at Fraser Range.

Willshire of Alice Springs

by Austin Stapleton

ISBN 0 85905 177 3, (1992 new), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 68pp, illustrated, 150grams,

$22.00 + POST

Alice Springs' Mounted Constable Willshire was tried at Port Augusta in 1891 for murder and honourably acquitted. The crown was widely criticised for the weakness of its case.

Wiluna

"Edge of the Desert"

by P.R. Heydon (O.A.M.)

ISBN 0 85905 216 8, (1996 new), Hard Cover, 155mm x 240mm, 624pp, illustrated, 1kg

$75.00 + POST

Wiluna - "Edge of The Desert", celebrates the Centenary of Wiluna, and covers the period 1886-1996.  It tells of the three phases of gold mining; of a vibrant town of 9,000 people at its peak; of the reminiscences of 80 people living in the town and on pastoral properties.

Winjan's People

by J.E. Hammond

ISBN 0 85605 330 X, (Reprint of 1933 edition, 1980/2005), Soft Cover, 86pp, illustrated, 125grams

$22.00 + POST

The story of the South West Australian aborigines.

Winning the Gascoyne

by Rhonda McDonald

ISBN 0-85905-158-7, (1991, 2008), 248pp, illustrated, Soft Cover,  320 grams

$35.00 + POST

The history of the Upper Gascoyne stations and area.

Wittenoom

by Ian Duggan and Katharina Zeelenberg.

ISBN 978-0-85905-688-5, (New, 2018), A4, illustrated, 147 pages, 425 grams

$40.00* + POST

A critical examination of the previously unexamined files of government departments and corporations that inflicted the disasters of asbestosis and mesothelioma on the Australian population from the mines at Wittenoom. An essential read for all involved in Wittenoom.

Wongi Wongi

by Judith Drake-Brockman

ISBN 0 85905 286 9, (2001 new), Soft Cover, 162pp, illustrated, 225grams

$22.00 + POST

In 1987 a part-Aboriginal author depicted the Drake-Brockman family as heartless exploiters of the Aboriginal people. For over a decade Miss Drake-Brockman and her family suffered these insults with dignity and reserve. Now she has spoken out.

Wooden Butterflies

by Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka

ISBN 0 85905 131 5, (1989 new), Soft Cover, 137pp, 210grams

$22.00 + POST

This autobiography evokes a different world in Poland, since destroyed by the Bolsheviks and the Nazis.  The story of the flight of the author and her family through Asia and Africa to Australia.

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.

The World's Rough Hand

by H. Phelps Whitmarsh

ISBN 0 85905 336 9, (2005 Reprint 1898), Soft Cover, 108pp,160grams

$22.00 + POST

"Lest it be thought that my misfortunes and penniless condition weighed heavily upon me. I would here record that throughout my life I was never more light of heart, more free from care, more genuinely happy , than at this very time, when the world's rough hand was knocking the boy into shape of a man. There were times, to be sure, when I cast down; there were periods of homesickness, moments of bitter disappointment; but these downs in my experience were always of short duration, and, by comparison, the ups became doubly joyous. As a rubber ball, when struck, receives a dent and then regains its spheric shape, so did I, with youthful buoyancy, soon recovered from these blows of circumstance. It was all, indeed, one grand adventure, crammed with interest, the cham of novelty, and real life."