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Paediatric Passport
by Michael Gracey
ISBN 978-0-85905-649-6, (New 2016), A4, Illustrated, 103 pages, 300 grams
$25.00*+ POST
Michael Gracey AO is a paediatrician who has worked in many countries, particularly with socially disadvantaged populations where childhood malnutrition and infections are rife. After medical training in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Britain, he was a consultant at Princess Margaret Children’s Hospital in Perth for many years and worked as a doctor among Aboriginal communities around WA, especially in the Kimberley, for decades.
Photographs from the Frontier
Kimberley 1910-1911
by the Swedish Scientific Expedition, Ed. Kim Akerman.
ISBN 978-0-85905-661-8, (2017, New), 240 x 165, French flaps, 163pp, 450 grams
$55.00* + POST
153 B&W photos taken on the expedition, of Aboriginals, landscapes, settlers, expedition members.
Never before released photos of the Mjoberg expedition and an important collection that will create interest in camps on both sides of the creek.
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.
Ruby Yen
ISBN 978-0-85905-659-5, (New, 2017), A5, 16pp, llust, 40 grams
$10.00 + POST
The controversial murder of a Chinese girl in Perth in 1925. Another of our series on the joys of multiculturalism.
Stealing by the Mile
by W. C. Charnley
ISBN 978-0-85905-644-1, (1920s, R, 2016), A4, facsimile, illustrated, 100 pages, 290 grams
$25.00* + POST
The real life adventures of gold stealing on the Golden Mile told via his mate, 'Slippery Wiley.' Close escapes, Mafia Black Hand gangs, telluride, illicit gold buying, underground mazes, gold smugglers, and the real old Boulder-Kalgoorlie.
Touch Me Not
by Pat Studdy-Clift
ISBN 978-0-85905-654-0, (New, 2017), A4, 86 pages, well illustrated, 255 grams.
$30.00* + POST
This is an historical novel, based on fact and brimful of the adventures, trials and triumphs of one pioneering family – the Gadens. In 1923 with two small babies, aboard the lugger "Chantress", their adventurous father and his brave-hearted wife headed into the uncivilised part of Australia now known as Kakadu National Park, only to find themselves living in "bough sheds" at the mercy of tropical cyclones, buffalo bulls, fierce snakes and primeval crocodiles, to mention a few of their hazards. Add to this a daughter Madge, who was not only a gifted pianist, but also a "darling". She touched the hearts of many, world-wide, when leprosy struck both her and her father. Top this with the inferno of World War Two as Madge, the mixed-race patients and their carers on Channel Island in Darwin Harbour faced the bombing of Darwin. History leads us through a record of man's inhumanity, but also man's humanity to man.
Up the Carob Tree
by Enga Smith
ISBN 978-0-85905-645-8, (2016), sc, 430 grams, 233 pages
$30.00 + POST.
Available from the author PO Box 1154, Carnarvon, 6701. 99419585.
Up the Carob Tree is a novel firmly based in Western Australia. Related through the eyes of a growing child, it tells the story of a family living on the outskirts of 'an ordinary little country town' that remains nameless but could be anywhere the reader wishes to place it: anywhere with 'majestic' grain silos and a milk bar called the Rotunda with a juke box that works 'most of the time.' In due course there's a Drive –In and a new fangled establishment called a 'motel.' The four neighbouring blocks on East Quarry Road where the family lives are taken up by an assortment of people, all from 'somewhere else' with their different and colourful, sometimes mysterious backgrounds and circumstances that are of endless interest to a curious child.