PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.
Chasing the Dragon's Tale - The Vergulde Draeck Story
by Bob Sheppard
ISBN 978-0-85905-723-3, (New, 2019), 160 x 240, heavily illustrated, indexed, 730 grams, $50.00*
The most comprehensive book ever written on the heritage, history and archaeology of the Vergulde Draeck (1656). Illustrated (with some never seen before photos) and containing around 700 references. The book is in two parts. Part One, The Vergulde Draeck Story, is a formal history of the wreck and its discovery. Part Two, Chasing The Dragon's Tale, covers the author's experiences in his 10 year search to unravel one of Australia's greatest maritime mysteries.
Cobbers of Mine and the Mining Magnate
by The Axeman, Alfred E. Wallace
ISBN 978-0-85905-735-6, (New, 2019), A4, 47 pages, 140 grams, $22.00* + POST
Alfred Wallace died of silicosis in 1924. He was an axeman in the forests and an underground miner on the Murchison. His verse was in demand for local celebrations and the regional newspapers. Few modern poets have had the acclaim of the public that the Axeman had.
His collection was reprinted for many years by the Northam newspaper. Some of his satirical verse such as The Bush Geologist, and The Mining Magnate was still being circulated in mining circles in the 1980s.
Places he versifies, such as Barney Murphy's Bungalow Hotel, and the mines where he worked, were part of my wanderings fifty years ago, and my grandfather was also at Wooroloo sanatorium for TB that he got in France. PJB
The Common Thread – Arnold Weinholt
Aussies in the thick of it. Stories from East Africa WWI, WWII. Ada Woodhill, Australian First Lady of German East Africa. And SOE’s Ethiopian Mission 101
Geoff Blackburn
ISBN 978-0-85905-710-3, (New, 2018), A4, illustrated, 40 pp, 185 grams
$25.00 + POST
The first, and hopefully not the last, Australian politician shot for spying. Unreported byways and fascinating African adventures in the Great Game.
Cue to the Klondyke
Herbert Annesley Ainsworth
ISBN 978-0-85905-724-0, (New, 2018), A4, 28pp, 100 grams
$15.00* + POST
A great story of adventure and perseverance in two great gold rushes.
Dingbat Flat
The Kalgoorlie-Boulder Riots of 1934
Rod Moncrieff
ISBN 978-0-85905-711-0, (New, 2018), A4, illustrated, 178pp, 500grams
$35.00* + POST
The race based riots and their causes have echoed over the past century. The first dispassionate study of a usually highly politicised incident. Essential reading for the multiculters.
“Eastward Ho!”
A trip through the Murchison Goldfields in 1894
by A Special Reporter
ISBN 978-0-85905-759-2, (1894 R 2019), A4, Indexed, 30pp, 100 grams, $22.00*
THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS’ DIARIES PROJECT INC.
Exploration Eastwards 1860-1869
Edited by Peter Bridge and Kim Epton. (WAEDP series.)
ISBN 978-0-85905-701-1, (New, 2018), casebound, section sewn, illustrated, maps, indexed, 576 pages, 1.5kg
$115.00* + POST
Contains some 30 expeditions including Lefroy and CC Hunt with appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott. Biographical notes on all known expedition members. Resolves the problems of the 'convicts gold' and Hunt's unknown convict helpers.
This is a very small run which will ensure future scarcity.
The companion volume 1869-1896 will go to the printers in July.
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.
Goodbye Dad – See you in fifteen years.
by Stanley & Lorraine Spring
ISBN 978-0-85905-753-0, (2019), A4, 150 pp, indexed, illustrated, 455 grams, $25.00* + postage.
Available direct from L. Spring, 4 Council place, East Fremantle, 6158. 0467 061 470. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hillie's Gift: A memoir of Australia's first rural guide dog owner Hilda Schell.
by Jenny Byatt.
ISBN 978-0-85905-785-1, (New, 2020), A4, 158 pages, illustrated, 450 grams, $50.00* POSTAGE $12.45 Australia wide.
Biographical reminiscences collected by the editor over many years as a memorial to Hilda.
Horse Trams of the old West
Peter J. Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-733-2, (New, 2018), A4, illustrated, 26pp, 90 grams
$20.00* + POST
Horse trams were a feature of the old north coastal towns, taking passengers and cargo from the jetties to the townships.
Indexes.
Gold in the Gascoyne, Winning the Gascoyne, Wheeltracks, Golden Days, My Fourth Tour, The Golden Quest, Beyond Boundary Fences, Before Coolgardie II.
Indexes to the above Hesperian Press books are $10 each. Eventually they will be incorporated into a vast master index of Hesperian books. If I survive that long.
Jim’s Story
Reminiscences of a petroleum geologist
Jim Parry
ISBN 978-0-85905-726-4, (New, 2018), A4, 93pp, Illustrated, 270 grams
$30.00* + POST
Jim Parry joined WAPET in 1952 and was involved in all their oil exploration, including Rough Range. Later he worked in Libya, returning to work on Barrow Island. A good read for all the old rock choppers.
JINGEMIA
by Peter J. Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-754-7, (New, 2019), A4, 16 pages, illustrated, 80 grams, $22.00*
Jingemia, place of the jinghis, at Watheroo, is a large collapse doline in the Noondine Chert. The cave was mined for guano over a century ago.
It is now a National Park. This booklet covers all the reports and history of the cave.