PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.
10,000 Hours
by Harry Moss
ISBN 0 85905 122 6, (1988 New), Hard and Soft Cover, 131pp, illustrated, HC 330grams, SC 185grams, HC $30.00, SC $22.00
The autobiography of a flying doctor pilot and his adventures in aircraft from the 1930s to the present in New South Wales, Northern Territory,
Victoria, Queensland, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
The 28th Battalion
Australian Imperial Force
A Record of War Service
by Harry K Kahan
ISBN 0 85905 391 1, (1969 reprint 2007), Soft Cover, A4, 140 pp, illustrated, 410grams
$30.00* + POST
The story of the 28th in France in WWI. Collett’s volume covers the unit until they arrived in France and Kahan continues the story.
3000 Miles on Side Saddle
Daisy Bates.
ISBN 978-0-85905-718-9, (R, 2018), A5, $10.00*
A Tale of the goldfields. The Afghan Curse. (The joys of multiculturalism.)
by James H. O’Brehoun.
ISBN 978-0-85905-968-8, (1930s R 2022), A4, 24 pages, 110 grams $22.00*
The criminal abduction of 14 years old Charlotte Grigo by an Afghan camel jockey in 1895 created a great uproar on the Coolgardie goldfields. This is the now unknown story of the Grigo family before they came to WA. The abduction and statutory rape of the child led to a series of murders and was one of the incidents which led to the great nationalist awakening and the Restricted Immigration Policy of Federation. It is story which should be remembered as such attacks are being normalised and approved by the utterly degenerate political class.
A Kimberley classic reprinted
Tales of the Overland
Queensland to Kimberley in 1885
by G.H. Lamond.
ISBN 0-85905-083-1, (1986, 2013), 142 pp, illustrated, 280 grams.
$25.00 + POST
In Queensland in 1885 Barney Lamond and his mate Jack Horrigan heard of gold in the Kimberley. Looking for land and adventure they rode their horses thousands of miles through the wild outback, surviving attacks by natives, thirst and accidents to become some of the first men on the goldfield which changed the history of WA.
Barney Lamond died in 1940 but he had dictated his story, now published for the first time. It is one of the best and most interesting of pioneer accounts of the north.
Tales of the Track.
The rude awakening of Cockroach
by Wanderer.
ISBN 978-0-85905-872-8, (1901 R 2021), $10.00*
The failure of Cockroach’s marital ambitions.
Tall Trees and Tall Tales
by John Morris and Roger Underwood
ISBN 0 85905 168 4, (1992 new), Soft Cover, 139mm x 215mm, 94pp, illustrated, 150grams
$22.00 + POST
Stories of old Pemberton. A marvellous reminiscence of the characters and places of the big timber country, in the South West of Western Australia.
Tanami Tom Laurie’s Early Murchison Experiences.
James Thompson.
ISBN 978-1-875778-12-6, A5, 5 pages, $10.00*
Teams and Teamsters
Edited by Peter J Bridge, Gail Dreezens & Angela Teague
[ISBN 978-0-85905-433-1, (New 2010), A4, illustrated, 147pp, soft cover, 430grams
$35.00* + POST
This collection of articles from the files of Hesperian Press compares the usefulness of bullocks, donkeys, mules, horses, and camels. It then details the working of these teams. The subject of ‘near side’ and ‘off side’ is covered, as are tandem teams, loads, wagons and wagon names, accidents, wheels and tires, the roads, getting bogged and getting out, and finally the teamsters themselves.
Temora. John Kernick, poet & prospector-miner of the Bohemian Gold Mine.
Peter J. Bridge.
ISBN 978-0-85905-955-8, (New, 2022), A4, 50 pages, illustrated, 170 grams, $30.00*
Kernick was a staunch fighter for the working man but left a legacy of poetry and service to his fellow man on the goldfields.
Terry's Story - A Good Life
by Terry McKrill
ISBN 978-0-85905-023-4, (2010, New), A4, 75pp, 253grams
$22.00* + POST
The autobiography of Terry McKrill born in 1935. Brought up in the suburbs, Boranup, army life, Muralgarra sheep station, Marble Bar, Yarrie, Wittenoom, trucking, Bell Brothers, roo shooting, Ashburton, fencing, metal detector prospecting with Dick Poland, East Murchison.
The 1982 Carnegie Expedition. Bill Peasley
ISBN 978-0-85905-806-3, 320 grams, $45.00*
The 1999 Carnegie Expedition. Bill Peasley
ISBN 978-0-85905-805-6, 240 grams, $40.00*
The Desert Trail. Bill Peasley
ISBN 978-0-85905-807-0, 280 grams, $30.00*
The Forrest Centenary Expedition. Bill Peasley
ISBN 978-0-85905-808-7, 150 grams, $30.00*
The Last Desert Journey. Bill Peasley
ISBN 978-0-85905-809-4, 285 grams, $40.00*
Claude Choules
The Last of the Last
His Autobiography
ISBN 978-0-85905-480-5, (2009, New), Soft Cover, 160 pp, 160 x 240, illustrated, 290 grams
$25.00 +POST
With the approach of Remembrance Day (11 November) 2009, Hesperian Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the autobiography of Claude Choules. In July 2009 Claude became – as one of three surviving veterans – the only remaining combatant of WW I. He is also the last man in the world who saw active military service in both World Wars.
The Tanami Goldrush, the Laurie brothers, fellow prospectors, and the Toll of the Bush.
Peter J. Bridge.
ISBN 978-0-85905-989-3, (New, 2023), A4, 148 pages, illustrated, indexed, 400 grams, $40.00*
The great NT desert rush of around 1910 which led to the loss of many lives from thirst, starvation, accident, and attacks from the savages. Lost stories and lost lives for gold ill spent.
On the road to Tanami,
Tramp the men who do – or die;
Pioneers, the land they spy
‘Neath a leaden load o’ Care.
Ah! The heartaches Stouthearts know
Scrapin’ for the golden show!
On the road to Tanami.
The Tin Memorials in Menzies Cemetery
by Yvonne Coate
ISBN 978-0-85905-717-2, (New, 2018), A5, $10.00*
The Tragedy of an Overlander.
From Port Lincoln SA to Perth WA in search of work. Overland journey of a shepherd, his wife and family, their difficulties & sufferings.
by Henry Mazzini
ISBN 978-0-85905-789-9, (1886, R), A5, illustrated, 17 pages, $10.00*
The Trap at Lošinj
by Miloš Saičič
ISBN 978-0-85905-786-8, (New, 2020), illustrated, A4, 76 pages, 250 grams, $40.00*
The autobiography of a Yugoslav soldier in WWII. Miloš Saičič was a young Serbian lawyer who joined the Royal Yugoslav Army under General Mihalovich. The Chetniks fought both the Germans and the Ustashi. The betrayals by Churchill and his twisted coterie meant their defeat by the communist partisans. The communist and Ustashi death camps and mass executions put into the pale the much propagandised, but very suspect, claims of German crimes.
He fled to Italy and after service in the Mediterranean he and his wife were in the Transit camp at El Shatt in Egypt before he migrated to Australia in 1948. He worked in Perth for the Hospital Collections Service, raised his family and died, aged 97, in 2008.
This is a rare story. Most Yugoslav materials available to the West being part of the Cold War stable with promotion of the ‘independent’ Yugoslavia, which was as brutal as anything both the Soviets and the ‘free’ West could devise.
This is a very small print run to record the title in Australian libraries and archives. It will be of interest to the children of those who fled Yugoslavia post war.
Then they called me Norma
by Norma King
ISBN 0 85905 124 2, (2003 new), Soft Cover, 278pp, illustrated, 385grams
$30.00 + POST
The autobiography of Goldfields author/historian and artist, Norma King. She was born in Kalgoorlie in 1922 and lived in various places in the Eastern Goldfields of WA for most of her life, married a miner at the age of seventeen, had ten children and reared nine. She began writing in 1969 after an illness that restricted her physically, and after seven of her children had left home.
There’s Gold There – Look For It
by
John Drayton
ISBN 978-0-85905-544-4, (R New 2013), A4, 128pp, 380g
$30.00* + POST
60 true tales of real finds and lost mines from Queensland to the Kimberley. Treasures from the files of John Drayton, prospector and journalist of the 1890s to 1940s. This could be the jackpot for a modern prospector. With a biographical introduction by Peter J Bridge.
Thermo-Electrical Cooking Made Easy
by Helen Nora Curle Smith
With an introductory essay, “The Kalgoorlie Stove”, by H.A. Willis
ISBN 978-0-85905-492-8, (2011 R+N), illust., 116pp., 230g
$22.00 + POST
In 1906-07, the Western Australian gold mining city of Kalgoorlie became the first place in the world to see an electric stove manufactured with the intention of bringing “cooking by electricity ... within the reach of anyone”. The ambitious enterprise brought about another world first ‑ the publication of a recipe book for electric cooking.
They Called Me
"Tjampu Tjilpi"
(Old Left Hand)
by Bob Verburgt
ISBN 0 85905 248 6, (1999 new), Soft Cover, 141mm x 215mm, 144pp, illustrated, 225grams
$22.00 + POST
The bush experience of the author as a patrol officer in the Western Desert in the 1950s and 1960s.
They Kept This State Afloat
Shipbuilders, Boatbuilders and Shipwrights of Western Australia
1829-1929
by Rod Dickson
ISBN 0 85905 214 1, (1998 new), Hard Cover, 158mm x 238mm, 344pp, illustrated, 640grams
$50.00* + POST
This history of the shipbuilders, boatbuilders and shipwrights of Western Australia from 1892 to 1929 presents personal and business details on over 300 artisans and their myriad of vessels. Over 200 photographs, letters and documents illustrate their endeavours.
They Simply Fade Away – with the 48th in France
by J A Williamson
ISBN 978-0-85905-236-8, (1939, 2009), Soft Cover, A4, 108 pp, illustrated, 310grams
$30.00* + POST
From the Foreword:-
John Alexander Williamson, 1886 – 1971, was born at Bonnyrigg, Scotland and emigrated to Australia in 1911. His life as a migrant, struggling to get a start, is detailed in an appendix to this book.
They're Racing at Landor
by P.R. Heydon
ISBN 0 85905 169 2, (1992 new), Soft Cover, 272pp, illustrated, 350grams
$30.00 + POST
The history of the people, horses and place of the fabled Landor bush races of the North West of Western Australia. A racing classic.
Now available again.
Last year our stock got buried in the warehouse. Just found.
Those customer’s whose orders we could not fill can now re-order.
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.
This Fearful Plague.
Bubonic Plague in Western Australia. 1900 to 1906.
By Michelle McKeough.
ISBN 978-0-85905-959-6, (New, 2022), 160 x 240, 124 pages, well illustrated, 220 grams, $35.00*