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Gallipoli to Tripoli
History of the 10th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914 - 1919.
by Neville Browning and Ian Gill
ISBN 978-0-85905-515-4, (2011 R 2012), 648pp, heavily illustrated with maps and photos, printed end papers, 1.8 kg, (Well over 2kg packed), folded laminated card cover, with the printed end papers, 1.65 kg.
$70.00* + POST
The 10th Light Horse epitomises the dash and insouciance of the mounted Australian soldier in World War I. We believe that this book will fill the great need of the expanding families, relatives, and growing amounts of Westralians interested in knowing of the experiences of our men in battles of such significance that they literally changed the map of the world.
Gather No Moss
by Billy Linklater
ISBN 0 85905 232 X, (1997 reprint of 1968 edition with new material, Soft Cover), 175pp, illustrated, 240grams
$22.00 + POST
Gather No Moss is the autobiography of William Linklater, alias Billy Miller, who ran away from his Adelaide home and in the 1880s 'went bush' and never looked back. He was in love with Romance, Adventure and a particular place, as true pioneers must be: the place was northern Australia at a time when the white man was still a phenomenon on the scene.
Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Leonora-Laverton Area
North Eastern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia
by J. Hallberg
ISBN 0 85905 0785, (1985 new), SC, 218pp, illustrated, 310grams.
$25.00 + POST
An associated set of 16 large geological maps of the area sells at over $104.00 elsewhere.
Collated by Peter J. Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-763-9, (2019), A4, indexed, 40pp, 125 grams, $22.00*
The real prospecting pioneer of the Murchison, defamed and pauperised by the powers that were and are.
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by Kim Epton
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Ghosts in Khaki
by Les Cody
ISBN 978-0-85905-563-3, (1997, Reprint 2013), Softcover, 388pp, 905grams
$55.00* + POST
The Ghosts of Bayley Street
Collected Poems of J. Sorensen
by Jack Sorensen
ISBN 0 85905 138 2, (1992 new), Soft Cover, 100pp, 150grams
$22.00 + POST
Jack Sorenson, shearer, boxer and poet was renowned for his meter and rhyme.
The Ghosts of Hamelin Bay
by Garry Teehan and edited by Helen Teehan
ISBN 978-0-85905-035-7, (2008), A4, 92pp, Soft Cover, illustrated, 270 grams, $30.00* + POST
The history of the now forgotten port and timber export town and area at Karridale, near Augusta. Details of the timber cutting, mills, ships and shipping, and the Davies empire from the archives, police files and shipping records.
Giles 1875 Expedition
by Lesley Brooker
ISBN 978-0-85905-612-0, (New 2015), A4, heavily illustrated in colour, indexed, 200 pages, 840 grams.
$40.00 no discount, + POST
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Ernest Giles' 1875 expedition, covering 3000km from Beltana, S.A. to Perth, W.A., is described in detail, with both historical and contemporary maps, and colour illustrations of the places visited and plants collected by the expedition naturalist, Jesse Young.
Gim! Gold stealing tales and trials of in the Golden West
By Peter J Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-575-8, (2014), A4, 175 pp, 505grams.
$35.00* + POST
Gold stealing was a way of life on the WA goldfields. It still continues in the boardrooms of the corporations in which are ensconced only the 'best' people. In our Darwinian economy only the most brazen and successful thieves survive to rob again. Many Westralian fortunes were and are built on these rorts. But it is usually the small miner who got caught. These latter stories have become part of the folklore of the goldfields.
Girt by Sea. An Unreliable History of Australian Shipping.
Kent Stewart.
(New, 2023), 165 x 245, well illustrated in colour, Case bound, 133 pages, 660 grams, $50.00
Only available Direct from author. Be quick. A small run.
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The Glorious Uncertainty
by Sally L. Senior
ISBN 0 85905 282 6, (2000 new), Soft Cover, 152pp, illustrated
$22.00 + POST
An enchanting tale of the lives of three little girls who grew up on a sheep station in the East Murchison district of Western Australia in the 1930s and 1940s.
God before Gugeri
Luggers, trucks & water bores & other Kimberley stories
by Michael Gugeri
ISBN ISBN 978-0-85905-567-3, (2014 New), A4, 226pp, heavily illustrated and indexed, 855gms
$45.00*
The Gugeri family have been landmarks in the Kimberley for nearly a century. This book follows four generations of life in the north, from pearling, carrying, Anna Plains station, water boring, Cockatoo Island, oil drilling, wool carting, the Underworld, rockets, fishing, and many incidents and characters. Biographies of Doug Blythe, Billie King and details of many other Kimberley personalities are also offered.
Gold at Peak Hill
by P.R. Heydon (OAM)
ISBN 0 85905 153 6, (1991 new), Hard Cover, 310pp, illustrated, 530grams
$40.00 + POST
The story of the discovery of gold in 1892 by Wilson and partners, the history of the town and Peak Hill area and its characters, all now gone.
THE AUTHOR
Phil Heydon commenced his working life in the Post Office at Cue, in 1935, as a Telegraph Messenger. He worked in most Murchison goldfield towns, returning to Big Bell as Postmaster in 1947 and retired as Postmaster at the General Post Office, Perth. He was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, and the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1979.
The Gold Deposits of Western Australia
by A. Gibb Maitland
ISBN 0 85905 010 6, (1919, 2009), 94pp, A4+, illus, soft cover, 300grams
$30.00* + POST
Ninety years on this is still the best overview of gold in WA for the general reader and prospector. The maps, drawings and photos explain the distribution and geology of gold throughout WA. Fourth Edition.
Gold Fields Maps of the early 1900s
WA Mines Department
ISBN 978-0-85905-569-7, (1905-8, 2014), A4, 56pp, 180grams.
$22.00* + POST
A reprint of the rare booklets of WA goldfields maps supplied to the early prospectors. Essential for goldfields historians and modern prospectors.
Gold Getting Days
by John Meiklejohn (edited by P. Bridge)
ISBN 0 85905 341 5, (2005), Soft Cover, 175pp, 235grams
$30.00 + POST
John Meiklejohn was one of the best known prospectors of the Coolgardie and later goldrushes of the 1890s. He came from Scotland to New Zealand and Victoria and then to Western Australia for gold. Rich gold strikes led to him heading for London to sell his claims, resulting in introductions to some of the most powerful financial figures of the time. Later came the South African war and prospecting in the Klondyke, Africa, and Madagascar for gold and oil. With his fortune gone he retired to Perth where he wrote of his experiences and those of his associates in the good old Gold Getting Days.
Gold in the Gascoyne
by Rhonda McDonald
ISBN 0 85905 270 2, (2000 reprint of 1985, 1986 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 140pp, illustrated, 200grams
$22.00 + POST
The story of Mangaroon Station and its development by the McDonalds from 1923, including the discovery of the magnificent Star of Mangaroon gold mine.
Gold in the Gascoyne INDEX $10
Gold on the Murchison
by Phil Heydon
ISBN 0 85905 066 1, (1986, 2008), 221pp, illustrated, Soft Cover, 315 grams
$35.00 + POST
Reprint of 1986 edition
Gold on the Murchison is the story of Cue, Day Dawn and Big Bell and the part the towns and their people played in the development of Murchison gold.
From the first rushes in the 1880s and the hardships of the pioneers to Cue's status as the 'Queen of the Murchison', the decay to ghost towns, oblivion and eventual rebirth.
THE AUTHOR
Phil Heydon commenced his working life in the Post Office at Cue, in 1935, as a Telegraph Messenger. He worked in most Murchison goldfield towns, returning to Big Bell as Postmaster in 1947 and retired as Postmaster at the General Post Office, Perth. He was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, and the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1979.
The Gold Stealers
by Brian Purdue
ISBN 085908 271 0, (2001 new), Soft Cover, 280 pages, illustrated, 450grams
$35.00 + POST
In 1926 one of the most diabolical murders to ever take place in Western Australia was committed.
Two members of the Goldstealing Detection Branch of the West Australian Police Force were murdered near Kalgoorlie, and their bodies partly dismembered and burned. The remains were then taken to a mineshaft and unceremoniously dumped. A gold processing plant was then thrown on top of the mutilated bodies.
This book reports all the known facts of the case. There are no imagined histrionics or manufactured conversations. Some of the photographs have never been previously published or even seen before, except in Court.
Gold to Grass
by A. Ashwin
ISBN 0 85905 284 2, (2002 new), Soft Cover, 222 pages, illustrated, 300grams
$30.00 + POST
Prospecting in the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia through the 1870s, 80s and 90s.
Arthur Cranbrook Ashwin's reminiscences cover a great time in our history. The goldrushes of the 1850s to the 1890s made the People and the Nation of Australia.
Golden Days
by Jules Raeside
ISBN 0 85905 204 4, (1996 reprint of 1929 edition), Soft Cover, 280pp, illustrated, 360grams
$30.00 + POST
The early goldfields and the men who shaped the politics of mining.
Golden Days INDEX $10
The Golden Era of Animal Health
The History of Disease Control in Farm Animals in Western Australia 1829 – 1990
by Fred Newman with Alex Williams
ISBN 978-0-85905-574-1, (2014, New), A4, 93pp, illustrated, 280 grams.
$30.00* + POST
Through the years a stock inspector has been; a stockman, bush vet, bush lawyer, and as a public servant committed and dedicated to protecting, improving and enhancing livestock production throughout the State of Western Australia.
Golden Land of Silence
A Tale of the Kimberleys
by A.O Neville
ISBN 978-0-85905-479-9, (N, 2010), 181pp, 320grams
$30.00 + POST
This novel, set in the 1930s in the far north Kimberley region of Western Australia, not only is a story of enduring love and revenge, both European and Aboriginal, but a portrayal of life on a remote cattle station where access and transport were both limited to slow. Characters are varied, including the worthy station manager and his beautiful daughter as well as employees needed for the day to day running of the station: storekeeper, stockmen, Aboriginal ‘boys.’
The Golden Quest
“Roaring days of the West Australian Gold Rushes and Life in the Pearling Industry”
by A.C.V. Bligh
ISBN 0 85905 042 4, (1984 reprint of 1958 edition with new material), Hard Cover, Soft Cover, 235pp, illustrated, 510grams
$30.00 + POST
The search for gold and the hazards of pearling. A vivid picture of life in the early days of the unexplored North.
The Golden Rule
by Bob Sheppard
ISBN 085905 311 3, (2002 New), Soft Cover 282pp, illustrated 480grams
$40.00* + POST
In 1970 a lone French prospector, Jean-Paul Turcaud, penetrated the unexplored wilderness of Australia's Great Sandy desert searching for minerals. He was astounded at the mineral potential he believed he had discovered.
Exhausted and almost penniless he drove out of the desert and into the hottest town on earth: Marble Bar. He needed help to develop his prospects but the representatives of the giant American company he first spoke to were not interested in what he had discovered.
The Golden West
How it was Discovered
by R. Greaves
ISBN 0 85905 009 2, (1981 reprint of 1903 edition), Soft Cover, 63pp, illustrated, 110grams
$16.50 + POST
Greaves was the discoverer of the Yilgarn goldfield in 1887. A detailed account of the discovery and its results for Greaves and his partners.
The Goldfields Journal of William Diaper
(Alias Cannibal Jack)
1851-1853
edited by William W. Emilsen
ISBN 085905 262 1, (1999 new), Casebound, dust jacketed, 235mm x 155mm, 140 pages text, 39 illustrations and 5 maps, sect
380grams $40.00 + POST
Cannibal Jack's old journal was discovered behind a mirror in a Sydney theological college. Emilsen has edited this Defoe-esque account into one of the most readable books of the goldrush period. Written on poor paper with ink made of charcoal and urine, the journal of William Diaper, 'rogue, thief and liar' has nothing in common with the writings of De Rougemont or Munchhausen.
Goldfields Memoirs of Donald Sandeman McDonald
by DS McDonald.
ISBN 978-0-85905-792-9, (New, 2020), A4, illustrated, indexed, 88 pages, 290 grams, $35.00*
From the 1890s to the 1960s he recorded N. Coolgardie goldfields life, of both aboriginals and the prospectors.
The Goldfields without Chrysanthemums
By Catherine Bond
ISBN 978-0-85905-602-1, (2015 R 1898), A5, 48 pages, 85 grams
$15.00 + POST
First published in 1898 as a portion of a larger book, this booklet contains all the WA goldfields portion of Bond's goldfields visit in 1896. How the well-heeled did it tough in the goldrush. Well worth a read to get the women's flavour of the fields.