PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.
Darkest Western Australia
by H.G.B. Mason
ISBN 0 85905 014 9, (1980 reprint of 1909 edition), Soft Cover, 148mm x 210mm, 74pp, illustrated, 130grams
$22.00 + POST
The best bushman’s advice book written, with his solution to the “native question”!
Darwin Dilemmas
by Ron Brown & Pat Studdy-Clift
ISBN 0 85905 164 1, (1992 new), Soft Cover, 188pp, illustrated, 260grams
$22.00 + POST
Darwin life just before and during World War II. An important eye witness account.
Daughters of Midas
Pioneer Women of the Golfields
by Norma King
ISBN 0 85905 124 2, (1988 new), Soft Cover, 188pp, illustrated, 400grams
$22.00 + POST
The author combines her own rich personal knowledge and insight of goldfields’ life with her thorough research to make an important contribution to the history of the goldfields.
David Carnegie
by W.C. Charnley.
ISBN 978-0-85905-819-3, (1934 R 2020), A5, 12 pages, 30 grams, $10.00*
The Dawning among the Aborigines of Central Australia
by W.H. Willshire
ISBN 978-0-85905-602-5, (R 1880s90s, 2015), A4, 261pp, illustrated, 690 grams
$45.00* + POST
Police Constable Willshire published four books in the 1880s-1890s on Aboriginal customs and his experiences among them in South Australia and the Northern Territory. These represent much first contact descriptions in areas where no anthropologist ventured. They are a valuable record.
Deaths in Western Australia A Genealogy Guide
compiled by Swan Genealogy
ISBN 978-0-85905-835-3, (New 2020) A4, 423pp, 1.2kg, $45.00*
This publication contains deaths and burial resources and records within towns and regions of Western Australia, held within archives, libraries, genealogical societies and on the internet.
The Dempsters.
Rica Erickson.
ISBN 978-1-875778-07-2, 334 pages, 160 x 340, illustrated, French flap cover, indexed, 770 grams, $70.00*
The great pioneering family. The Dempster interests ranged from shipping and coastal trading to merchandising, from whaling to farming, from fishing to horse-breeding, from sandalwooding to pearling. They explored some of the harshest regions in the state, and successfully established a pastoral station in one of the most isolated districts. They organised searches for gold and promoted new farming methods. They were leaders in community and civic affairs and were active in politics. They built historic homesteads and founded families that carried on with the same zest for life and sturdy self-reliance that was the hallmark of their ancestors.
A small run of a long out of print book.
Desert Droving, Saddling and Shooting
The outback lives of Marie and Snowy Brosnan
As told to Marion Hercock
ISBN 978-0-85905-542-0, (2012), A4, illustrated, 79pp, 240 grams
$30.00* + POST
At the age of twelve Warner ‘Snowy’ Brosnan had a longing to ride horses, and when he saw Chips Rafferty in The Overlanders he vowed that one day he would be a drover. Snowy’s dream came true, with all the thrills and falls, the blood and boredom, and rough and tumble of droving cattle.
Desert Journey 2000 & Warri & Yatungka. Bill Peasley. with Maureen Herbert.
ISBN 978-0-85905-813-1, 300 grams, $30.00*
THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS’ DIARIES PROJECT INC.
Desert, Drought and Death
The Border Exploration Syndicate Expedition to the Rawlinson Range 1899 – 1900
by Henry William Hill (edited by Mark Chambers and Peter J. Bridge)
ISBN 978-0-85905-383-9, (2009 new), case bound, dust jacketed, 158pp, illustrated, 465 grams
$70.00* + POST
Following reports of gold in the far-off Rawlinson Range an expedition was organized by the Border Exploration Syndicate. This book is the story of the expedition as written by the leader, Henry W. Hill.
Dicks & Dickheads I Have Known
The Memoirs of a Pox Doctor
by Leo Laden - Cartoons by R. Stein
ISBN 0 85905 215 X, (1991, 1996 and 2009), Soft Cover, 168pp, 230grams
OUT OF PRINT
Written by a doctor who wanted to be an artist and illustrated by a dentist who thinks he is an American Civil War soldier, this book is funny, irreverent, honest, provocative and at times, very sad. From the desert sands of Aden to the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, Dr Leo Laden records some of is experiences in a witty and easy to read style.
Digging, Squatting
and
Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia
by Mrs Dominic D. Daly
A pioneering classic from first settlement to 1887. Vivid description of life and events that shaped the destiny of the Northern Territory.
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.
Diogenes
by George Pavlu
ISBN 085905 325 3, (2003 new), Soft cover, illustrated, 185grams
$22.00 + POST
.... here is a book that barks at fleas with cynic wit. And what a restorative sight - Diogenes the Dog snapping at the heels of 'homo consumerus' at prayer in their temples to modernity - Shopping Malls - urging the decidedly un-chic virtue of frugality: to know that enough is enough IS ENOUGH!