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"The Afghan Problem"
and
their camels
by I Murray, P Bianchi, M Bloomfield & P J Bridge
ISBN 978 0 85905 462 1, (2008), A4, 160 pp, illustrated, soft cover, 450 grams
$30.00* + POST
Afghans are now looked upon somewhat romantically but in the 1890s rush they were a constant problem for almost everyone. This collection of articles shows the antagonism of the bush against their dirty habits and truculent demeanor. Their camels were little different
After Uneasy Atoms – Uranium camps on the Northern Australian Rivers, 1950-1960
by Hervey J. Newton
ISBN 978-0-85905-571-0, (2014, new), A4, 86 pp, illustrated, 250 g
$22.00* + POST
Rum Jungle, El Sherana, Ranger, Nabarlek and Sleisbeck were names that resounded in the mining world when atomic power was viewed as the future. This book is the story of NAUC's Sleisbeck deposit and the men who developed it in the then wild tropics.
Agnew
by Alex Palmer
ISBN 085905 267 2, (2000 new), Soft Cover, laminated, 142 pages, illustrated, 195grams
$22.00 + POST
The history of the goldfield's town, its rise and fall and the life of its people.
All Australians Now
by Willem van Ravenstein
ISBN 978-0-85905-295-5, (2010 new), illustrated, 221pp, 510grams
$35.00 + POST
For the ten-year old Dutch boy who arrived with his migrant parents at Fremantle one intolerably hot day in 1950, Australia was an alien, almost incomprehensible land.
A clear-eyed observer with an outsider’s perspective, the child grew up and was educated in postwar Perth, where he was gradually transformed into an Australian.
The experience was a complex, testing and sometimes confusing process.
All Gold
The Death of Stephen Grace
by Peter J. Bridge,Gail Dreezens and Moya Sharp
ISBN 0 85905 398 9, (2007 new), Soft Cover, A4, 30pp, saddle, illustrated, 135 grams
$16.00* + POST
Grace was the head of APLA, the prospectors association, and was murdered by blacks in 1907, while on a prospecting expedition along the RPF.
All in My Stride
by Richard Harris
ISBN 0 85905 260 5, (1999 new), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 216 pp, illustrated, 230grams
$22.00 + POST
All In My Stridestells of John Gilmour's early days living in a group settlement in the South West of Western Australia, the struggle for survival during the Great Depression, enlistment in the Army as a fit young man, and his coming to terms with major damage to his eyesight through malnutrition in Changi goal. Worse was to come - nightmare years as a slave labourer in Japan. He was a 2/4th machine gunner.
All Men Back - All One Big Mistake
by W.A. (Bill) Bee
ISBN 0 85905 254 0, (1998 new), Soft Cover, 156pp, illustrated, 230grams
$22.00 + POST
An amazing story told by an Australian sailor of his experiences immediately before and after capture by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
As a signalman on the flag deck of HMAS Perth, Bill (Buzzer to his mates) Bee gives an eye witness account of events leading up to debacle of the Java Sea Battle on 27 February 1942, and final annihilation of Allied Naval Forces defending Java on the 1 March 1942, in Sunda Straits.
Then as a Prisoner of War for 3½ years the author takes the reader on a journey that describes vividly the anxieties and perils he and his mates experienced while travelling over vast distances of land and sea to satisfy their captors' forced labour requirements. This includes building the Burma-Thai Railway to coal-mining in Japan.
The narrative begins in Fremantle when HMAS Perth arrives in February 1942 and finishes when the author returns home in Perth, Western Australia in 1945.
The Alligators of Cambridge Gulf
by W.C. Charnley.
ISBN 978-0-85905-694-6, (R, 2017), A5, $10.00*
Along the Ashburton
by Rhonda McDonald
ISBN 0 85905 288 5, (2002 new), Soft Cover, section sewn, 278 pages, illustrated, 385grams
$35.00 + POST
The history of Onslow and the stations of the Ashburton.
Rhonda McDonald (nee Stidworthy) spent much of her childhood and married life in country similar to that of which she has written. She commenced her schooling at Onslow in 1936 and finished it at the Presentation Convent Carnarvon, along with some of the people mentioned in this book.
After leaving school Rhonda worked on the Carnarvon telephone exchange before becoming Gascoyne Traders' first secretary. Eventually she married Allan McDonald of Mangaroon Station, where they lived until their retirement to Perth.
Along the Coast
BY Ship Northwards
edited by Peter J Bridge, with a foreword by maritime historian and artist Ross Shardlow
ISBN 978-0-85905-604-5, (R, N2015), A4, illustrated, 212 pages, 580 grams
$50.00* + POST
The forgotten role of coastal shipping in both supplying the North and keeping Westralia in contact with the outside world. A collection of 25 descriptions of voyages along the coast from Eucla to Wyndham, interstate and to south and east Asia, in the period 18 80s to the 1960s.
Along the Road to Cue and other verses
by Andree Hayward
ISBN 978-0-85905-136-1, (2010 new), 106pp, illustrated, 156grams
$22.00 + POST
Andree Hayward was a lawyer, poet and newspaper editor and one of the greatest influences on the developing high culture of the Westralian goldfields. This collection of his verse, a biography and literary criticism fulfils promises made by Hesperian to Hayward's grand-daughter over 25 years ago, and to Beverley Smith, the first of 'modern times' to recognize the value of a virile goldfields literature.
Chris Holyday has researched and edited this expanded collection, marking the 60th anniversary of Andree Hayward' death.
Alphabetical Index to the 1954 “List of Cancelled Gold Mining Leases Which Have Produced Gold”
by P. J. Bridge
ISBN 0 85905 005 X, (1972 New), Soft Cover, 68pp, A3, 400grams, $50.00*
This is an essential companion to the List of Cancelled GMLs produced by the Mines Dept which is in district order. With the alpha index and the name of a GML its locality can be found.
Always Your Own, Allan
Edited and written by Julie Easton.
ISBN 978-0-85905-559-8, (2013, New), A4, 60pp, illustrated, 210 grams.
$22.00* + POST
A love story; a social history of farming and community life; a snapshot of the concerns and issues facing young people in the late 1930s in the south-west of Western Australia in the late 1930s.
THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS’ DIARIES PROJECT INC.
Among Wild Animals and People in Australia
by Eric Mjoberg, translated by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman.
ISBN 978-0-85905-507-9, (New 2012), Casebound, dj, illustrated, 362pp, 1.1 kg,
$95.00* + POST
From October 1910 to August 1911 biologist Erik Mjoberg and his seven man Swedish team travelled by bullock wagon through the West Kimberley collecting invertebrates, birds, mammals, and ethnographic research material.
Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
by Eric Mjoberg
Translated by FM Fryer, Edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritchie.
ISBN 978-0-85905-593-2, (New 2014), 421pp , 160 x 250, heavily [258] illustrated + 4 colour plates, casebound, dj, 1.3kg,
$110 .00* + POST
Published in Swedish in 1918 and now available for the first time in English. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg's North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. Rarely seen photos of NQ Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
A small run with only a few casebound so Queenslanders please do not delay.
An Aboriginal Monster
by Daisy Bates.
ISBN 978-0-85905-740-0, (RN, 2018), A5, 10 pp, $10.00*
A description of the habits and character of an Aboriginal monster who terrorised his tribe and cannibalised all he could.
An Australian Centaur
Harry Farber, 1880-1965 Horseman
by Edna Baulch
ISBN 978-0-85905-531-4, (2012), 32pp, A4, illustrated, 120 grams
$16.00* + POST
The biography of one of Australia’s greatest horsemen. Edna’s biog plus other notes, verse, and many photos.
An Island Unto Itself
by Leslie R. Marchant
ISBN 0 85905 120 X, (1988 new), Soft Cover, 152mm x 223mm, 224pp, illustrated, 460grams
$30.00 + POST
Based on research findings and the results of maritime expeditions conducted by the author, this book provides a comprehensive account of Dampier's scientific explorations in New Holland during the English Restoration and Revolutionary periods, when English sciences advanced with the then newly-established Royal Society.
And if her droughts are bitter
by Gladys Linke
ISBN 0-85905-228-1, (1996 & 2003), illust, 133pp, 180grams
$22.00 + POST
The Linke family and their life on the far outback Prenti Downs and Carnegie Stations. The book also details aspects of the canning Stock Route. Tommy Injebong. Len Beadell.
An important book on the problems of bush station life.
Linke family direct sales: Northam 089 621 2555, Prenti Downs 089 981 2988, Paroo Station 089 981 2882.
And Some Found Graves
The Goldfields Diary of John Aspinall
compiled by A.J. Thompson
ISBN 0 85905 186 2, (2002 reprint of 1993 edition), Soft Cover, 95pp, illustrated, 150grams
$16.50 + POST
I found Johnny Aspinall's grave by chance in February 1980 while prospecting at Hawks Nest, about 15km west of Laverton in the Mt Margaret Goldfields of Western Australia.
Johnny began his diary in 1895 as he left his native New Zealand and his last entry was made in 1896 one prior to his death when he was struck by lightning. Ironically, his last entry mentioned that there were thunderstorms around." A.J. Thompson
The Anzac Squadron
by Norman Ashworth
ISBN 0 85905 198 6, (1994 new), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 285pp, illustrated, 350grams
$33.00 + POST
The Anzac Squadron is the story of 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, formed in Britain on Anzac Day 1942. The Sunderland Flying Boat Squadron spent the next three years opposing Admiral Doenitz's U Boats in the battle of the Atlantic.
The young Australian and British air crew flew their boats in search of the ever-elusive U Boats while the Luftwaffe JU88 fighters hunted the hunters.
From this combination came both excitement and tragedy. This is a story not only of the moments of excitement that punctuated the otherwise long monotonous patrols but also back at base where aircrew and ground staff alike had to face the rigours of wartime Britain, far from their homes and loved ones. It is a story told largely by those who took part, in their own way and in their own words.
The Apotheosis of the Kero Tin
ISBN 978-0-85905-140-8, (2011), 16pp, illustrated, 40grams
$10.00* + POST
How an outcast of society became the object of admiration and utility, if not a thing of beauty.
An essay on the role of the old kero tin.
The Archimedean Lever
Alexander Livingstone, a freewheeling journalist on the Westralian Goldfields
Collated and edited by Peter J Bridge with Angela Teague
ISBN 978-0-85905-485-0, (2010 new), A4, 44pp, 150 grams
$22.00 + POST
Alexander Livingstone was one of those characters thrown up in the convulsions of the Australian gold rushes. They burned brightly and quickly, like the volcano that suddenly erupts and then returns to dormancy.
Around the Goldfields
A study of possibilities and dreams. An overview of the goldfields during the great depression.
Anon.
ISBN 978-0-85905-450-8, (2019, new), A4, indexed, 48 pages, 150 grams, $22.00* + POST
Australia in the 1940s - Life on the Home Front
by Gary Mentiplay
ISBN 978-0-85905-818-6, (2020 New), Soft Cover, French flaps, 248pp, illustrated, 1kg, $45.00
(Post/Pack within Australia, add $15.00)
Available from the author: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: 0420 448 036
This book is not a military history of Australia's involvement in World War II. The focus of this work is on the "Home-front" with people living day to day with shortages and rationing.
As the war ebbed and flowed, life went on for most people. The joys and hazards of life did not stop, of course, and there were births and weddings, bushfire disasters, floods, droughts, road deaths and injuries, hot summers and cold winters, and for many families, bad news on the fate of loved ones serving in the theatres of war.
A wide range of subjects has been included and cover all states in Australia. There are "War Briefs" and "War News" inserts in the chronological sequence throughout the book – these are included to give a perspective of whatever was occurring on the home-front and in the war at that particular time.
Many of the issues affecting motoring, road and rail transport have not been covered in great detail in the past – issues such as how did the petrol rationing system work, how often did the ration scales change, why didn't petrol rationing cease when the war ended? Why was there an acute rubber shortage from 1942 to 1946 when private motorists could not buy any tyres?
"Australia in the 1940s" will give the post-war generations an insight into what their grand-parents and parents lived through.
Australia Twice Traversed
by Ernest Giles
ISBN 0 85905 206 0, (1995 reprint of 1889 edition), 382pp, illustrated, 670grams
$50.00 + POST
A classic of Australian exploration in one volume, including maps.
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
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.
Australian Aboriginal Tracking, Water Finding and Smoke Signaling
by Alexander Thomas Magarey
ISBN 978-0-85905-616-8, (R 1890s, 2015), A4, 34pp, Illustrated, 130 grams
$22.00* + POST
Magarey was a South Australian explorer with a keen interest in Aboriginal customs. These papers are the result of his investigations among South Australian Aboriginals and are some of the best on the subjects covered, and in the case of smoke signalling, the only detailed description available.
The Australian Medicine Man
(Der Australische Medizenmann)
by Helmut Petri
ISBN 978-0-85905-583-3, (2014, New), 206pp, SC – French flap, 160 x 250, 515g.
$55.00* + POST
Available for the first time in English, Petri’s landmark 1952 book on Aboriginal medicine men, shamans, witchdoctors. With a Foreword by Susan Bradley and Introduction by Kim Akerman.
The second volume of a trilogy of translations of Petri’s important work in a culture now destroyed.
The Australian Mineralogist
Vol 1, Nos 1-51, 1975-1986
ISBN 978-0-85905-639-7, (R,2016), A4, sc, 320pp, illustrated, 780 grams
$65.00* + POST
Facsimile of the rare journal for researchers and collectors.
Australia’s Worst Mass Murder – The Wreck of the Emma
by Kevin Moran
ISBN 978-085905-557-4, (New, 2013, A4, 47pp, illustrated, 160grams.
$22.00* + POST
In 1867 the Emma carrying forty two passengers and crew was lost. Her fate was not known until ten years later when an Aboriginal crew member on the Jessie informed Captain W Tuckey the following, which was reported in The Inquirer newspaper on 19 January 1876 : -
“A Long time ago (about 10 years he described) a ship was wrecked near North West Cape; the passengers landed at night, in the boats and as they had no means of defending themselves, the natives had no difficulty in making them prisoners. There were a large number of persons, among them were some females. The natives were not ‘sulky’ with them, but nevertheless they killed and ate all of them, the narrator partaking of some of the flesh.”