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Droving with Ben Taylor
Up and down the Canning Stock Route in 1946
by Len Hill
ISBN 978-0-85905-472-0, (New 2009), 236pp, Soft Cover, 310 grams
$35.00. + POST
Droving with Ben Taylor is based on the diary of a Canning Stock Route drover. It is the only droving diary known from the 50 years of operation of the CSR, the longest and most remote stock route in the world. Here, detailed, the old hand, Ben Taylor, teaches the youthful Len Hill the art of droving in the desert lands. With horses and camels from Wiluna to Billiluna, and return with cattle, this unique account describes the pleasures and duties of a drovers life, the cattle, the land, and its inhabitants. Len Hill is a retired Kimberley pastoralist. Among his many local roles he was a Halls Creek Shire Councillor, a member of the Kimberley Zone Development Committee, and a JP.
The Drummonds of Hawthornden.
Rica Erickson.
ISBN 978-1-875778-06-5, 208 pages, 160 x 240, illustrated, French flap cover, indexed, 520 grams, $65.00*
The pioneer botanical and police members of this family made a permanent mark on the colony.
A small run of a long out of print book.
Dry River
by Rachel Percy
As told by Dave Mills
ISBN 978-0-85905-505-5, (2012R), illust., 212 pp, 400g
$30.00 + POST
Humorous, gritty, real…
David Mills’ biography, Dry River, is a richly detailed account of working life in the Australian Outback in the last days of the old stockroutes and packsaddle cattle camps. An extraordinary story of an ordinary bloke.
Dry River is a vivid account of one man’s pursuit of his dream:
“…and one day – you never know – to have a cattle station of my own.”
Dryblowers and Gold
Ed by Peter J Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-677-9, (2017, new), A4, 190pp, heavily illustrated, 510 grams
$50.00* + POST
A history of dryblowers. This revolutionary device was developed on the WA goldfields and spread in various forms to other dry auriferous states and nations. A collection of historical and technical reports that are scarcely known, together with an exceptional collection of photographs.
Published 27 Oct 2017.
DUE NORTH
The Exploration of the North West of Western Australia.
By Peter J. Bridge and the WA Explorers’ Diaries Project.
ISBN 978-0-85905-837-7, (New 2021), 892 pages, 160x240, illustrated, +2kg $160. 00*
The most important book on the NW for a century. Contains all the exploration diaries for the NW from 1861 to circa 1900. Important first contact material. Illustrated with maps and photographs of the explorers with their biographies.
The Dying World in Northwest Australia
by Helmut Petri
(With a Foreword by Susan Bradley and Introduction by Kim Akerman)
ISBN 978-0-85905-091-3, (New, 2011), 286pp, 160 x 240, illust., 660g, $50.00 + POST
Prior to leading the Twenty-second Frobenius Expedition (1938-1939), to the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, Helmut Petri had developed a wide range of interests that encompassed the fields of physical anthropology, ethnology, history, prehistory, economics and philosophy.
The Daybooks and Journals of Eric Mjoberg & Cyrus Viddell
of the Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910-1911.
Translated & edited by Margarita Luotsinen, Gunnar Syren and Kim Akerman.
ISBN 978-0-85905-905-3, (New, 2022), A4, 290 pages, illustrated, 1.1 kg, $65.00*
This is a companion to our previously published Among Wild Animals and People in Australia by Eric Mjoberg. Hesperian Press, 2012.
An exceptionally informative volume covering aspects of the expedition not mentioned in the 2012 book. Finer details of the personalities, the specimens, and the localities visited as well as an important collection of previously unpublished aboriginal photographs. A unique record of the Frontier Kimberley through the eyes of non-Anglo European scientists. An important Kimberley reference.
The Desert Journey of 2004. Bill Peasley
ISBN 978-0-85905-811-7, 220 grams, $35.00*
The Desert of Tragedy
by WC Charnley
[ISBN 978-0-85905-882-7], (1935, 2021), A4, 21 pages, illustrated, 120 grams. $22.00*
The NT desert claimed the lives of many travellers. With the introduction of aeroplanes the disasters continued. This is the story of a series of air crashes and lost life in the 1930s.
The Desert Trail. Bill Peasley
ISBN 978-0-85905-807-0, 280 grams, $30.00*