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At 81 time is short and our backlog great.

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We have had several queries from overseas translators checking whether we are advertising for translators.

Criminally inclined Chinese operators are using a close adaption of our name in a @gmail account to solicit such work.

We have observed Chinese gangsters trying it on for our name in the past.

In the past we have noted Chinese criminals involved in book stealing rackets in Western Australia. 

They were just in advance of the criminally destructive policies of the State Library.

If the book is on the website and booklist it is in print and in stock.
 

PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.

   All prices quoted are in Australian currency and include GST. * Short trade discount.

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SEARCHING.

 On our downloadable booklist is a limited subject index. After each entry in [ ] are letters indicating general subjects. These are for the States. WA, NT, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS, Q. Areas of WA – K (Kimberley), CAN (Canning), NW, MUR, CEN, SW, WAR (Warburton), EUC (Eucla). See the map (page 2) delineating these. Also PNG, NZ, USA, AFrica, CA Canada, OS overseas. MIL military, MAR maritime, AIR aviation, ANI animals, AB aboriginal, MIN minerals – mining, geology, minerals, BIO biography, BIOL biology, H health+, VER verse, COM comic, CON convicts, EX exploration, AFG afghans, FOR Forestry, WOO woodlines, PAS pastoral & droving, POL police, crime, CSR Canning SR, TRAN transport, ART art

Place the required subject, eg. [MIL] in your search bar and drop down through the list. Eventually we will combine all the individual book indexes on the website as a massive master index for search

This Home Page list is the new releases. 

See the Main Booklist for full details.

We have rarely changed the prices upwards on our books. Plenty have been discounted.

However, with a combination of declining sales, declining stocks, and greatly increased production costs some changes are necessary.

Reprinting of many core titles has generally not been viable. But when we do this the runs are much smaller.

So costs per copy are higher. So usually these will have reduced trade discounts, marked with a * on the listed price.

We are on the tail end of the following titles, Black and white, Yammaji, Youanme.

The prices of the remaining stock are now raised to fit in with the new pricing if/when we reprint. All are now rrp $40.00*

Most of our titles will not be reprinted when they become out of print. Then the rare book sellers will have a field day.

Philosophy lessons.
 

"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
 

"Censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is weak."—Julian Assange.
 

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."—Marcus Aurelius

Why multiculturalism must be annihilated in Australia

By Dr. Stephen Chavura, January 22, 2025

As above, so below.

That’s worse than it sounds in Canada. Canada’s literary scene is very Soviet. The entire thing is supported by government funding, and one’s existence within it has precisely nothing to do with market demand for one’s work – which is generally nonexistent for CanLit – and everything to do with maintaining a good reputation amongst the literary councils, which in turn rests upon saying only the Approved Things in any and all public and private circumstances. That cozy Stalinist cloister of cynically disingenuous literary incest is exactly as effective at producing compelling literature as you’d expect.

Must reads on the joys of multiculturalism:- https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net; UNZ.com

 COMING SOON 

Camden Harbour history. Graeme Blake.

Death at Dawn. Rod Moncrieff.

The Stockdale saga.

Swan River letters vol 2 Ian Berryman.

Leo Gugeri biography. Michael Gugeri.

Fairbairn’s Fiasco. Ed Peter J. Bridge

Ian Murray autobiog. Ian Murray.

The Aborigines of earliest Albany. An annotated index to the published 1830-31 journal of Captain Collet Barker.

Neville Green, Mary Anne Jebb and Mark Chambers.

ISBN 978-1-923560-33-8, (new, 2026), A4, 91 pages, illustrated, 275 grams, $35.00*

An important and useful reference for early Albany to mark the 200^th year of European settlement in Western Australia.

Little of relevance has been published or is proposed for publication by the comatose state and local governments to mark this occasion.

However we at Hesperian, aware of the low cultural IQ of those in power have been preparing relevant publications for public enlightenment.

Captain Collet Barker’s diaries, published as Commandant of Solitude, were prepared by John Mulvaney and Neville Green, Hesperian Press, 2021

John Sweetman’s The Military Establishment and Penal Settlement at King George Sound. Hesperian Press 1989.

Also to mark the Anniversary is William Thacker and New Holland. Peter Bridge and Richenda Bridge. Hesperian Press 2026. This details the life of the first British settler in WA who arrived as a convict on the Amity in 1826. All the rest of that ‘first fleet’ returned to NSW. Thacker left for the Swan River, marrying a girl from the Rockingham. His great grandfather had visited Western Australia in 1688 with William Dampier on the Cygnet.

Desert Explorations. A History of the Central Deserts 1847-1929.

Peter J. Bridge and Mark Chambers.

ISBN 978-1-675778-87-4, (New, 2026), A4, 551 pages, indexed, 2.1kg, $110.00*

A systematic collection of the diaries, reports, records etc of those who explored the great deserts of WA, NT and SA, with hundreds of expeditions and travellers recorded. This is not a coffee table of flash but an essential volume of the WA Exploration Diaries Project. Most of the material has not been, or rarely, been seen before. Compiled from the systematic collections of the editors. [BIO] [SA] [NT] [WAR] [NW] [CAN] [K] [CEN] [MUR] [EUC] [AB [MIN] [BIOL] [EX] [AFG] [PAS]

Elsewhere Fine.

Karl Dimer.

ISBN 978-1-875778-52-2, (1989, R 2026), 140 x 220, 473 pages, illustrated, indexed, 860 grams, $80.00*

Karl’s story of the founding of and life on Namanbinia Station near Balladonia on the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain. This book has been out of print for many years, the funds of both the author and the current publisher being somewhat limited. This is an unaltered facsimile edition of an important bush history for both the settlers and the aboriginal people of the area. [CEN] [EUC] [BIO] [AB] [MIN] [AFG]

Explorers Routes Revisited.

Lesley Brooker

Lesley Brooker’s beautiful and brilliant ecological studies of WA explorer’s travels have been reprinted in a small edition. All are in full colour with numerous illustrations.

Roe 1836. ISBN 978-1-923560-35-2. A4, 170 pages, 760 grams, 60.00*,

Moore 1836 & Drummond 1841-42. ISBN 978-1-923560-34-5. A4, 152 pages, 138 pages, 700 grams, $56.00*,

Clarkson 1864. ISBN 978-1-923560-36-9. A4, 650 grams, $56.00*,

Giles 1875. ISBN 978-1-923560-37-6. A4, 202 pages, 870 grams, $75.00*

The Goanna Patch. The discovery of a rich gold show north of Leonora by native stockmen in 1958.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-923560-49-9, (New, 2026), A4, 30 pages, well illustrated, 130 grams, $25.00*

The famous Goanna Patch discovery created much interest. Previously unseen photos of the time and news and govt files are used to record the event and its aftermath.

Jinkers and Whims. A pictorial history of timber getting.

Jack Bradshaw.

ISBN 978-1-923560-30-7, 122 pages, A4, heavily illustrated, Revised new edition. 650 grams, $45.00*

A magnificent book. The instant I saw a copy of the first edition I was captivated.

This is an essential record of the timber getting in the SW of WA. Horses and bullocks, men, mills and machines and trees, trees, and timber. Almost every photo is a masterpiece in itself. A great labour of love by the author handing on the stories of generations of timbermen.

Lonehand - Gold in the Blood. A true Australian adventure story.

By Joe Houldsworth

ISBN 978-1-923560-42-0, (New, 2026), 160x240mm, 155pp, illustrated, $35.00*

This is a true Australian adventure story about a young migrant determined to embrace the Australian way of life and make his fortune prospecting. Though taking a lot longer than expected, he finally made it with a spectacular gold discovery in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, and the birth of a new Australian gold mining company, Ramelius Resources Ltd.

“Lonehand: Gold in the Blood” started out as a memoir for family and friends but grew into something more. You can’t get more Australian than Joe’s account of his adventures in the Australian bush, culminating in the discovery of the Wattle Dam Gold Mine, one of Australia’s highest grade gold mines and the founding of a new Western Australian Gold Mining Company.

The Lubra and the Ferret. Sea tales of the south and west coasts.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-923560-39-0, (New, 2026), A4, 16 pages, illustrated, 100 grams, $22.00*

Several recently acquired water colours from the 1890s - early 1900s of Adelaide Steamship Company ships are illustrated together with the story of the ships and their demise. Both served on the west coast.

Major Logue’s Diaries of Ellendale. (1850-1900)

Transcribed and edited by Dr Nan Broad.

ISBN 978-1-923560-29-1, (2026, New), A4 in two volumes, french flap cover, illustrated, 1124 pages, 3kg, $360.00*

Note – The price is merely a token of the costs of production. The diaries are published for the historical record. Postage will use the AP 5kg satchels.

These unique colonial diaries of Major Logue who settled Ellendale on the Greenough have been the object of much angst by the usual gang of whacked out literary(?) terrorists. The Guardian rag fulminated at length over the possibility of the omission of the code in which the author recorded the settler’s reactions to the attacks of the local tribes. These codes are fully detailed in facsimile. The records of these attacks are also being prepared for publication. The cannibal crimes and spearings are not publicised by the proto-revolutionary state funded researchers and publishers. To them only the White man is racist and reprehensible. That’s what the Bolsheviks said before committing the greatest mass murders of the 20^th century. The serial crime families are solidly represented among the activists. Readers - You have been warned!

After many years of work these volumes will shortly be available in a very limited edition. Circulation will be at the copyright owner’s discretion and severely restricted. Inevitably there will be complaints about the availability, but the whiners are not paying the bills. Interested persons are requested to apply to the publisher for consideration of supply.

The Mineralogical Research Papers of Peter J Bridge 1968-1991.

Peter J Bridge.
ISBN 978-1-875778-99-7, (New, 2025), A4, 146 pages, illustrated, 620 grams, $ 50.00*

The collected papers describing new and rare minerals, mainly from Western Australia. Includes an illustrated biographical reminiscence of the author’s time at the WA Government Chemical Laboratories and notes on his fellow workers. [BIO] [MIN] [CEN] [EX] [AB] [TRAN]

The Quartermaine expedition diaries.

Keith Quartermaine.

ISBN 978-1-923560-00-0 to 978-1-923560-24-6, A4, ~1800  pages, illustrated, 5.6kg, $912.00

Between 1952 and 1975 Keith Quartermaine compiled extended detailed and illustrated reports and maps of the travels of his team of Kalgoorlie School of Mines friends and local bushmen. The first organised exploration of the Nullarbor caves; out to the edge of the desert; and along the little travelled areas of the south coast. The later diaries are records of their hunt for meteorites mainly in the eastern goldfields area. The reports and photographs record the areas before the disturbances of modern mining. The local people and station life are well recorded. Twenty sets only of the 25 reports have been printed. They range from 25 to 152 pages.  Perhaps, if there is interest and pre-orders, consideration will be given to sales of individual items. [CEN] [EUC] [BIO] [EX] [MIN] [AB] [PAS] [TRAN]

Quartermaine expedition reports.

1. The Inland Sea or Carry on Regardless. Nullarbor caves 1952. 152pp. $65.00*

2. The Woodall Expedition. Nullarbor caves 1953. 103pp. $50.00*

3. Queen Victoria's Spring and Streich's Mound. 39pp. $22.00*

4. Pimpernal Baxter. Nullarbor south coast. 107pp. $50.00*

5. Follow the Leader. Nullarbor south coast. 65pp. $35.00*

6. Mount Ragged and Israelite Bay in Retrospect. 48pp. $25.00*

7. Stardust. Meteorite hunting. 103pp. $50.00*

8. Mrs Ethel Simmons. Cook and Sinclair families. 51pp. $30.00*

9. Operation Pannikin. Meteorite hunting. 63pp. $35.00*

10. Some Fella Bin Took ‘em. The Story of the Mt Egerton Meteorite. 61pp. $35.00*

11. Cleaning up Australia and Avoca. Meteorite hunting. 77pp. $40.00*

12. Flanagan (The Wiluna Meteorite) and Credo, Fenbark and Wildara. 66pp. $35.00*

13. Lightning Does Strike Twice. Nullarbor Walkabout. Meteorites. 111pp. $50.00*

14. The Grey Ghost. South Yilgarn. 67pp. $35.00*

15. At Last. Baxter memorial. 31pp. $22.00*

16. Don't let me Disturb You (Cleaning up the Malga North Shower). Fraser Range, Ularring & Menangina. 115pp. $50.00*

17. Shades of Gray. Meteorites. 20pp. $22.00*

18. The Fringe Dwellers. Meteorite hunting. 81pp. $40.00*

19. The Byro Ring. Gascoyne. 38pp. $22.00*

20. The Hobza and Trailer. More about the Billy Goat Donga Meteorite Shower. 74pp, $40.00*

21. Tinned Dog. Yerilla area and australites. 78pp. $40.00

22. Shades of JPB. Balbinia and Israelite Bay. 111pp $45.00*

23. The Laverton Affair. 21pp. $22.00*

24. A Remarkable Story. N of Kalgoorlie. Meteorites. 56pp. $30.00*

25. Deleted.

26. Wangalli. NE of Kalgoorlie. 30pp. $22.00*

Some account of a brumby-trap.
LB Jupp.

ISBN 978-1-923560-41-3, (R, 2026), 10pp, $10.00.

An account of brumby trapping at the back of Mundaring in the early 1900s.

Under the Coolibah Tree.

G.F. Young.

ISBN 978-1-923560-45-1, A5, 304 pages, well illustrated, 600 grams, $40.00*

The interesting life of Gordon Young who experienced the WA gold rushes as a prospector, miner, and general bush hand, rising to mine managing where he made his mark. Eventually he became a well-known writer and broadcaster out of Victoria. A great story.

The Wanderer. A life in the Australian Outback. Frank Hugh Hann 1845-1921. Pastoralist Bushman Explorer Prospector.

Ian Elliot and Rod Beaumont.

ISBN 978-1-923560-28-4, (New, 2026), A4, 460 pages, illustrated, indexed, 1.8 kg, $110.00*

A magnificent book of the bush and its people, mainly set in Queensland and Western Australia. Heavily illustrated with both B&W and colour photographs and many maps of Hann’s travels. [NT] [WA] [SA] [QLD] [EXP] [K] [CD] [AB] [MIN] [BIO] [PAS] [NW] [WAR] [CEN] [CAN] [EX]

War on the Sand Plain

by Graham McKenzie-Smith

In early 1942 Imperial Japan rapidly advanced, capturing Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. Japanese planes attacked Darwin, Wyndham, Derby, Broome, Port Hedland and Exmouth.

Where were they coming next ?

HQ 3 Aust Corps believed that the Japanese would first land at Geraldton to capture the port and airfield before advancing south to capture Fremantle. There was no Brand Highway or Indian Ocean Drive and the only track to the coast between Yanchep and Dongara from the main road through Moora went to Jurien Bay, via Dandaragan.

On 10 April the 1,600 men of Special Mobile Force arrived at Mingenew without notice as the start of an influx of soldiers to the sand plain between Perth and Geraldton.

By August some 20,000 men were deployed on the sand plain between Perth and Geraldton with brigade groups (~4,000 combat soldiers) at Geraldton, Mingenew, Dandaragan and Gingin, while HQ 4 Infantry Division and their support troops occupied Moora and supply depots were set up at Mullewa and Morawa.

The troop numbers reached a peak of 32,000 in August 1943 when the 160 tanks, 150 tracked vehicles and many hundreds of trucks from 1 Armoured Division roamed around Moora and Dandaragan, while HQ 2 Infantry Division was established outside Geraldton, with brigade groups at Geraldton, Mingenew and the Swan Valley.

The four books of the 'war on the sand plain' series detail the movements and activities of the 306 Army units, with 47,300 men, that occupied 290 camp sites in the region. Also detailed are the 37 coast watch posts established to give warning of any enemy activity along the coast.

Researched by Graham McKenzie-Smith whose first book 'Australia's Forgotten Army – Vol 1 – The Ebb and Flow of the Australian Army in Western Australia – 1941 to 1945' first alerted West Australians to the huge build up of the Army in the West. In these books he expands on this by including the movements and operations of all units, at all locations, down to the Supply Depot Platoons, Field Post Offices and concert parties.

The 'war on the sand plain' books are published by Hesperian Press and Grimwade Publications. They are available at locations on 'the sand plain' or can be supplied from the publishers. Send your order (with contact details) to either :-

Hesperian Press Grimwade Publications

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1. The Army comes to Northampton, Geraldton and Mullewa $25 + $5 postage

2. The Army comes to Dongara, Mingenew and Morawa $25 + $5 postage

3. The Army comes to Jurien Bay, Dandaragan and Moora $25 + $5 postage

4. The Army comes to Gingin and Wanneroo $25 + $5 postage

5. Set of four books $90 + $15 postage

Western Australia Handbook 1912.

ISBN 978-1-923560-43-7, (1912, R, 2026), A4, Illustrated, ~300pp, 1.2kg, $86.00

A magnificent overview of WA in 1912. Produced by the government to promote tourism and investment in WA. Few copies remained in WA as the books were distributed in the eastern states.

A fitting companion to the previously reprinted Cyclopedias etc.

Wild West Ives. Alfred Oliver Cromwell Ives. Prospector, Explorer, Rabbit Proof Fence Boundary Rider and Engineer.

Phil Bianchi, Peter Bridge, Gail Dreezens.

ISBN 978-1-875778-70-6, (New, 2026), A4, 84 pages, illustrated, 400 grams,  $40.00*

Known as ‘Wild West’ for his armaments after being speared in his blankets by the savages east of the Oakover River in the 1930s. His father was a successful prospector. He explored the desert on camels and found many mineral deposits that in recent times made major companies exceedingly wealthy. Later he created an engineering company that produced electric water heaters. He was a friend of the second author’s father. [BIO] [MIN] [CEN] [CAN] [PAS]

William Thacker and New Holland. The first British settler in Western Australia.

Peter J. Bridge and Richenda J. Bridge with an appendix by Bob Hewison.

ISBN 978-1-923560-39-0, (New, 2026), A4, 26pp, 150 grams, $22.00*

A young tea-leaf from Wapping, he was exported to NSW, arriving in 1825. He eventually formed part of the convict and military group sent to King Georges Sound, arriving on 25 December 1826. He is mentioned several times in Commandant of Solitude, the diaries of Captain Collett Barker, Commandant of the settlement. He was given his freedom in 1830 and proceeded to the Swan River, settled in Upper Swan, and married Eliza Cook who had arrived on the Rockingham. An ancestor, John Thacker, had preceded him to Western Australia, arriving with William Dampier in 1688. Land Rights are in order for a productive settler and his descendants.

William is the direct maternal ancestor of Peter Bridge of Hesperian Press. There are many other widespread descendants.

The Youngs are the Salt of the Earth.

Shirley Pritchard.

ISBN 978-1-923560-38-3, (New, 2026), A4, illustrated, 27 pages, 150 grams, $22.00*

The Young family in WA originated when Charles Young jumped ship at Albany in 1862, taking employment with the Brockmans at Pemberton where he met Mary Thacker. Mary was the daughter of the first British settler in WA, being the only freed convict from the Amity, arriving in 1826. They settled at Mica Hill near Manjimup. The family have since grown and prospered.

Geological Library of Geoff Blackburn.
 

Retired geologist Geoff Blackburn’s international geological library is now for sale.

Some 266 + shelving feet of books and journals are now available for inspection at the Hesperian Press warehouse.

Highlights are a very large section on Africa/Middle East and substantial collections on South America and SE Asia.

Preference given to the sale of each of these sections complete. Offers for the full collection solicited from corporate or individual buyers.

Contains many rare and very difficult to obtain items.

Further gems in consideration for sale are a beautifully bound set of WA Geological Survey Bulletins, a well bound set of Mines Department Annual Reports, a bound set of the Aerial Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia, and also an unbound set. 

Minerals of Western Australia, 1935 to present. 

Project. To collect all information on the distribution of mineral species in Western Australia post-Dr. E. S. Simpson's Minerals of Western Australia. (but also to incorporate material that Dr Simpson missed). 

Dr. Simpson died in 1939 and the work was finished by Dr Dorothy Hill. The three volumes were published in 1948, 1951, and 1952. 

No other state has anything like MWA. Queensland has a Mineral Index published in 1912. Several checklists of minerals were published in Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. Few nations have such collations except France, Madagascar and a few American states.

MWA proved invaluable to generations of researchers, geologists, prospectors and collectors. It is no exaggeration to say that millions of dollars have been made from the included data. As a scientific resource it is unparalleled.

Very few mining companies were helpful in adding to the state collections in the time I was there, from 1961 to 1978. But many made use of the information provided. Fewer mining companies were prepared to cooperate in the initial updating proposal of 2010, and there was a dearth of collectors that were serious enough to be prepared to knuckle down to the long and systematic work involved. I term this problem the ‘Henny Penny Syndrome.’ http://goodsensibilities.blogspot.com/2008/11/henny-penny.html  - not the Wikipedia filth!

Now collectors abound and a few even read the literature beyond the infantile ‘grabs’ on the internet. 

It is proposed that checking will go back to 1935 to ensure little is missed, due to time lags in publishing and accessibility of journals when Dr Simpson was collating his manuscript.

This data is in :‑

Journals and published reports, including older newspapers.

Company reports held by the GSWA

Files of the Government Chemical Laboratories archives.

Files of the Geological Survey of WA

Files of the Minerals Division of the CSIRO

Files of the Bureau of Mineral Resources

Specimens held in the collections of the WA Museum, WA School of Mines, University of WA Geology Department, private collections.

Of necessity this is a multi-volume affair. It must be approached systematically, and not ‘cherry picked.’ Hit and run attitudes are not wanted. For the first stage of this project only the journals, published reports and newspapers are to be systematically covered, but scattered material from private collections will also be considered. 

The literature must be systematically checked to find all references to papers published on WA minerals and mineralogy. While this may appear to conflict with GSWA publications on mineral resources, it will not, as the emphasis is different, but there will be a minor overlap.

For those who will become involved each will have identifying initials attached to their para as per the Mineralogical Abstracts, a companion to the Mineralogical Magazine of London. This ensures that claims to expertise and competence are backed by evidence and contributors acknowledged.

The abstracting of the new MWA entries will be done by competent persons. Those searching the journals/files will not necessarily be the final abstracters. All, however, will be acknowledged.

The work was started by the indexing of Government Chemical Laboratories Annual Reports in 1970 as Mineral and Locality Index to the Publications of the WA Government Chemical Laboratories 1922-1970. Peter J Bridge. Hesperian Press.1972. Unfortunately the then more accessible GCLARs were used. These are now rare. The same data with different pagination is in the digitized Mines Department Annual Reports.

This was later followed by the indexing of the GCL Mineral Division collections by PJB in the 1970s and the production of a computer index. This was said to be published, unacknowledged, in the late 1980s but I have never seen a copy. So perhaps my master copy is now the sole copy. The GCL was corporatized and computer records may no longer exist.

A systematic reading of all early goldfields newspapers has uncovered many previously unknown mineral finds, such as the discovery of nickel on the goldfields in the 1890s.

Further work was started in the early 2000s by the systematic sifting of Mineralogical Abstracts for references using the resources of the Mines Department Library. It is this latter referencing which shall be the centre of the first stage of this work. However it is essential to check all the journals as certain editors of MA were a little too selective. From these references the full paper will be p/copied to match all references. By 2010 I was well ahead but then other realities intruded. I have substantial files already compiled. It is proposed that the final set of these documents eventually be placed in the GSWA Library or in the WA Museum Library.

This is not a project which needs money, at this stage. It is to be volunteer run. Once compiled discussions can take place as to the style of dissemination of the results. 

The entries may of necessity be briefer than those styled in the original MWA.

Later each locality will have to be plotted to give a grid of the 1:100,000 sheet which can then be indexed automatically on completion.

Descriptive details will be restricted to a formula. Formulas can be perhaps based on those in Fleischer’s Glossary of Mineral Species, if still produced. Detailed mineral descriptions would not be included as there are many textbooks now available, in print or on-line, and inclusion would measurably conflict with the energy required to complete the index. 

The formulation of a spreadsheet to enable all this data to be sorted will be done at the same time as the references are collected.

This proposal is now being published for consideration by those interested. Personally, I may not be able to be involved due to age and other commitments. But I am happy to guide such if the right personnel become involved. Several other proposals have been made over the years but all were unworkable. This proposal will be on record as the only practical way to collate the information to produce an acceptable outcome.  

Having created (with Kim Epton) the Western Australian Explorers Diaries’ Project Inc. (an incorporated body) and produced over 20 large volumes of such diaries I can claim some knowledge of preparing and completing a major research operation. In this we had to weed those who were onlookers, parasites, or saboteurs. There are many that take but do not give.

Peter J. Bridge

9 November 2024.