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Saddle
in the Kitchen
by Enga Smith.
(ISBN
0 85905 191 9), 1993 reprint of 1979 edition, Soft Cover, 87pp,
illustrated, 150grams.
The
popular story of the author's childhood in country
Western Australia
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Sailor
and Commando
by A.E. (Ted) Jones.
(ISBN
0 85905 253 2), 1998, Soft Cover, 128pp, illustrated, 245grams.
A
R.A.N. Special Service Commando’s WWII experiences in training and on
service in the East Indies and
Borneo. New
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Sailors
in Slouch Hats edited
by W.W. Rice.
(ISBN 0 85905 299 0), 2001, Soft Cover, 168pp, illustrated,
230grams.
Wartime
reminiscences of the men of 42 Australian Landing Craft Company, RAE.
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Scarlet
Stain, The - Harlots, Harridans and Hellholes of Old
Kalgoorlie
Edited by
Sheryl Milentis and P. J.
Bridge
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(ISBN
085905 350 4), 2004, Soft Cover, 188 pages, illustrated, 270
grams.
By
the late 1890s, the Kalgoorlie
brothels had become a byword for degradation and the most flagrant in the
English-speaking world. The Sun newspaper
campaigned against the outrageous displays by the prostitutes, the
activities of their bludgers and the vested interests of the landlords and
sly grog traders. This book details that campaign and shows a vastly
different old
Kalgoorlie
to that usually depicted. New
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Shark
Bay
Days by G.W. Fry.
(ISBN 0 85905 127 7), 1995
reprint of 1988 edition with new material, Soft Cover, 80pp, illustrated,
125grams.
Shark
Bay
from the pearling days to the present.
Jack Fry’s life as a pearler and fisherman in an area now the
centre of tourism. Tales of men and boats. New
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She’s
No Milkmaid
by
Rica Erickson & Rona Haywood.
(ISBN
0 85905 152 8), 1991, Soft Cover, 96pp, illustrated, 178grams.
The
biography of Dame Raigh Roe, President of the Country Womens' Association
and the story of her fight for the rural women of
Australia
and the World.
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Signaller
at the Front
by Arthur G. Howell, MM.
Edited by John Coe.
(ISBN
0 85905 305 9), 2001, A4 Spiral Bound, 82 pages, 250grams.
The
war diary of Gunner Howell, 1st Australian Field Artillery
Brigade and his impressions of the Great War 1915-1918.
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Small
Scale Underground Mining
by Frank Bojesen.
(ISBN
0 85905 292 3), 2003, Soft Cover, Wire spiral A4, 480+grams.
Bojesen describes step by
step how to develop and run a small underground mine cheaply, safely and
profitably.
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Spanish
Settlers of Yoongarilup
by Alejandro Torrent.
(ISBN
0 646 16939 4), 1993, Soft Cover, 74pp, illustrated, 105grams.
A
little-known migrant group near Busselton in the south west of
Western Australia
who arrived between 1906 and 1909.
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Spinifex
and Sand by David W.
Carnegie. (ISBN
0 85905 139 0), 1989 reprint of 1898 edition, Soft Cover, 275pp,
illustrated, 500grams. A
first hand account of the Coolgardie gold rush, the suffering of the
prospectors, great gold discoveries, his own long march with typhoid
fever, desert tribes, the constant search for water, the death of one of
his men, and the vastness of the surrounding desert.
All are woven together in one of the most readable accounts of
exploration in
Australia
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Spinifex and Sand Maps
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1989 reprint of 1898 edition, 280grams.
Set
of four (4) large maps illustrating Carnegie’s journey. (Folded or
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Steadfast
Endeavour by Graham
Wilson.
(ISBN
0 85905 208 7), 1995, Soft Cover and Hard Cover, 216pp, illustrated, Soft
Cover 220grams, Hard Cover, 320grams.
A
chronicle of church interaction with Pilbara Aboriginal society,
1945-1995.
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Tall
Trees and Tall Tales
by J. Morris and R.
Underwood.
(ISBN 0 85905 168 4), 1992, Soft
Cover, 94pp, illustrated, 150grams.
Stories of old Pemberton.
A marvellous reminiscence of the characters and places of the big
timber country, in the South West of Western Australia.
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Ten
Thousand (10,000) Hours by Harry Moss.
(ISBN
0 85905 122 6), 1988, Soft Cover & Hard Cover C, 131pp, illustrated,
Soft Cover 185grams, Hard Cover 330grams.
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. New
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Then They
Called Me Norma
by
Norma King.
(ISBN 0 85905 124 2), 2003, Soft Cover, 278pp, illustrated, 385grams.
The
autobiography of Goldfields author/historian and artist, Norma King. New
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They Kept
This State Afloat
by
Rod Dickson.
(ISBN 0 85905 2
141), 1998, Hard Cover, 344pp, illustrated, 640grams.
Details the
life and work of all Western Australian boat builders from 1829 to 1929. New
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They’re
Racing at Landor
by
P.R. Heydon.
(ISBN 0 85905 169
2), 1992, Soft Cover, 272pp, illustrated, 350grams.
The history of
the people, horses and place of the fabled Landor bush races of the North
West of Western Australia. A
racing classic.
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28.00
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Thomas
Edwards of Beverley: Emigrant, Policeman, Settler by Mollie Bentley.
(ISBN
0 85905 076 9), 1985, Soft Cover and Hard Cover, 115pp, illustrated, Soft
Cover 180grams, Hard Cover 290grams.
The biography of an early
colonial policeman, with much detail of the Police Force from 1850 to
1868. Details of explorations
with E.H. Hargraves for gold and C.C. Hunt for land, Aboriginal contacts,
and the development of the areas to the east of the Colony’s capital.
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Toodyay - the good old days by Wally Chitty, edited by Chris Martin.
(ISBN 0 85905 342 3), Soft
Cover, 248 pages, 240x160mm, 150+ photos, maps.415grams.
A
magnificent new book on Toodyay - an anecdotal snapshot of life in times
gone by. Features more than 1000 people. Illustrated with over 150
photographs. Includes reference maps. Easy to read and of great
interest. The author is a fourth generation member of a well known local
pioneering family. New
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Those
Were The Days
by Arthur Reid.
(ISBN
0 85905 101 3), 1986 reprint of the 1933 edition with new material, Hard
Cover, 418pp, illustrated, quarto, l.5kg.
An important reminiscing history of Coolgardie and
Kalgoorlie
. Biographical details of more
than 400 early goldfielders. Fully
indexed. New
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85.00
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To
Call Our Own
by M.R.H. Southcombe.
(ISBN
0 85905 119 6), 1998, Soft Cover, 87pp, illustrated, 140grams.
The
pioneering of the Group Settlements, Kalgoorlie
in the depression, riots on the goldfields, and timber milling.
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To the
Bar Bonded
by Kath Mallett.
(ISBN 0 85905 178 1),
1992, Hard Cover, 330pp, illustrated, 550grams.
A history of Marble
Bar by Mrs Mallett, ex Limestone Station.
A fascinating look at this quintessential Western Australian
outback town from its beginnings.
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To The
Savage Land - The
Life of John Costello by
J. Costello.
(ISBN 085905 287 7), 2002 Reprint
of 1930, Soft Cover, 161pp, illustrated, 245grams.
In
the 1880s John Costello, a pastoralist from Yass who has settled on Coopers
Creek, purchased Lake Nash Station. New
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Trackmaster,
The - Sig Schlam
by
Bill Elkes.
(ISBN 0 85905 112 9),
1987, Soft Cover, 29pp, illustrated, 100grams.
The biography of one
of the World’s greatest speedway motorcycle riders.
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Tragedy
Track
by F.E. Baume.
(ISBN 0 85905 199 4), 1994 reprint of 1933 edition with new material,
Soft Cover, 143pp, illustrated, 200grams.
The story of the Northern
Territory Granites’ gold rush of the 1930s.
A bush classic. The
area now has major gold mines. New
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Travels
in Western Australia by May Vivienne.
(ISBN 0 85905 192 7), 1993 reprint of 1901 edition, Soft Cover, 212pp,
illustrated, 275grams.
The writer sparkled through
Western Australia
and the goldfields by train, coach and bicycle, charming all.
Always popular, this book is a goldfields’ gem. New
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28.00
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Twentieth
Century Impressions
by
P.W.H. Thiel & Co.
(ISBN 0 85905 269 9), 2000
reprint of 1901 edition, Hard Cover, 808pp, illustrated, A4+.
Another
Western Australian classic. Richly
illustrated. Copious
information on early
Western Australia. New
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Unbroken
Spirit
by Brian Peachey.
(ISBN 0 85905 275 3), 2000, Soft Cover, 155pp, illustrated, 230grams.
The
biography of William Boxhal a convict transported in 1855.
Covers the English prison system, transportation, the Western Australia
penal system, and his life as an expiree, building his farm, marriage,
life as a farmer and parishioner of New Norcia.
Contains a detailed list of his descendents in Western Australia
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Veterans,
The: A History of the Enrolled Pensioner Force in Western Australia, 1850-1880
by F.H. Broomhall.
(ISBN 0 85905 103 X), 1985
/ 1989, Hard Cover, 472pp, illustrated, 720grams.
Contains a
narrative history and extensive biographical data on its members with
approximately 1,000 entries. The
Guard garrisoned
Western Australia for 30 years. An essential source volume for all involved in Western
Australian history and genealogy.
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Voice of
the North, The by Jim Kelly.
(ISBN
0 85905 154 4), 1993, Soft Cover, 138pp, 190grams.
The collected
bush poems of Jim Kelly are the result of his love of the bush and time in
cattle camps of 60 years ago. A
Kimberley
classic. New
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Waiting
For Rain
by Janet Wells.
(ISBN 0 85905 155 2),
1991, Soft Cover, 36pp, 70grams.
Prize-winning poetry of the North.
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Waldeck
Story, The by Norma King.
(ISBN 0 85905 141 2), 1990
reprint of 1980 edition with new material, Soft Cover, 120pp, illustrated,
180grams.
The story of the Waldeck family of Greenough.
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Walker
in the Wilderness
by J. Anketell.
(ISBN 0 85905 243 5), 1998, Soft Cover & Hard Cover, 196pp,
illustrated, Soft Cover 340grams, Hard Cover 485grams.
Surveying of
the Trans-Australian railway line, the Rabbit Proof Fence and the North.
A biography of R.J. Anketell. New
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Western
Australian
Burial
Locality Index
by
Yvonne and Kevin Coate.
(ISBN 0958 6628 27), 1996, Soft
Cover, 128pp, 360grams.
Index to public and private cemeteries and
lonely graves, listed by district.
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We Came Home or Return From the Land
of
Milk
and Honey
by
Richard J. Armstrong.
(ISBN
085905 352 0), 2005, 211pp, A4, Perfect bound, illustrated, 585grams.
The author was in Changi
and on the
Burma
railway and this is his reminiscences of men and murderers, good men and
bad, with neither fear nor favour. The author is now 85 and in failing
health, but all his old comrades will remember this as vintage Richard.
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Wealth
and Wildcats by
Raymond Radcliffe.
(ISBN 0 85905
309 1), 2004, reprint of 1898, Soft Cover, 129 pages, Illustrated,
190grams.
Raymond Radcliffe, journalist for the London
Financial Times travelled through the goldfields of
Western Australia
and
New Zealand
in the late 1890s.
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West Pilbara,
The - Sail and Teams to Bulk Carriers and Bitumen
by Doug Gordon.
(ISBN
0 85905 337 7), 2004, 156pp, Soft Cover, A4, illustrated, 410grams.
Doug’s memoirs cover his families involvement in the early North-west
and Millstream Station.
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Western Australian Exploration 1826 - 1835
Volume
1
Edited by Joanne
Shoobert et. al.
(ISBN 085905 351
2), 2005, Hard Cover, 638pp, illustrated, maps, 1.3Kg.
This is one of the most significant volumes ever published in W.A.
and the first of its type in
Australia
. Few have before attempted such a project.
Print Run only 1000 copies.
New
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96.00
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Western
Australia’s Tempestuous History by John Nairn.
(ISBN 0 85905 088 2), (986
reprint of 1976 edition with new material, Soft Cover, illustrated by
Frank Pash, Three
(3) Volumes,
158pp, Large Format, 380grams each.
Incidents of Western Australian
history brought to life. New
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Western
Pioneers by J.E. Hammond.
(ISBN 0 85905 181 1), 1993
reprint of 1936 edition, Soft Cover, 134pp, illustrated, 180grams.
The reminiscences of a pioneer settler in Western Australia. Descriptions of early
Perth
and Geraldton, natives, the South West, people, businesses and more.
A favourite.
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Westminster
Tradition and Australia
by Professor L.R. Marchant.
(ISBN 0 85905 273 7, 1999, Soft
Cover, 175pp, 235grams.
Essays on Australia's political system and its history. Essential
reading for an understanding of the Constitution and Australia's past and future. New
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Whaleback
Tales
by Peter Eckhart.
(ISBN 0 85905 230 3), 1996, Soft Cover, 119pp, illustrated, 160grams.
The
story of the town of Newman
in its early days by the first doctor in the town. New
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Wheel
Tracks
by W.W. Ammon.
(ISBN 0 85905 190 0), 1993 reprint of 1966 edition, Soft Cover, 144pp,
illustrated, 190grams.
Ammon was there when camel trains gave way
to trucks. His story of the
early trucking days in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia
is now an Australian classic.
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Where
Fortunes Lay
by A.J. Macgeorge.
(ISBN 0 85905 194-3),
1993, Soft Cover, 186pp, illustrated, 250grams.
A biography of the
finders of the Golden Mile with the story of Sam Pearce and the verse of
Dorrie Doolette. A real gem of the gold-rush books.
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Where is
Brown Hill? by
Amy Moore.
(ISBN 0 85905 128 5), 1989, Soft Cover, 60pp, 115grams.
Brown
Hill was a small mining community t’other side of Kalgoorlie. Now covered with mullock
heaps of the new open cuts, this township and its people are recorded by
Amy Moore, born and bred in this forgotten goldfield’s village.
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Where
There’s Smoke There’s Fry
by Chris Hales.
(ISBN 0 85905 259
1), 1999, Soft Cover, 196pp, illustrated, 270grams.
The biography
of Alf Fry - one of the great characters of the South West of Western
Australia.
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William
Ford and Coolgardie by Alice Kathleen
Clemenson.
(ISBN 0 85905 118 8), 1988, Soft
Cover, 151pp, illustrated, 340grams.
The biography of the
discoverer of Coolgardie. Copiously
illustrated.
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Willshire
of
Alice Springs
by A. Stapleton.
(ISBN 0 85905
177 3), 1992, Soft Cover, 68pp, illustrated, 150grams.
Mounted
Constable Willshire of
Alice Springs
was tried for murder in 1891. He
was acquitted but received undeserved notoriety.
Details of his books and work among Aborigines.
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Wiluna -
edge of the desert by P.R. Heydon.
(ISBN 0 85905 216 8),
1996, Hard Cover, 624pp, illustrated, 1kg.
The history of the goldfield's town of
Wiluna
and its surrounds, its people and incidents in its roaring days.
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Winjan's
People by J.E.
Hammond.
(ISBN
0 85605 330 X), Reprint of 1933 edition, 1980/2005, Soft Cover, 86pp,
illustrated, 125grams.
The story of the South-west Australian
aborigines.
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Wongi
Wongi
by Judith Drake-Brockman.
(ISBN 0 85905 286 9) 2001, Soft
Cover, 162pp, illustrated, 225grams.
An account of the relationship
between the Brockman family and Aborigines on Corunna Downs station and
later in Perth.
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Wooden
Butterflies
by Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka.
(ISBN 0 85905 131 5) 1989 Soft
Cover, 137pp, 210grams.
This autobiography evokes a different world
in
Poland
, since destroyed by the Bolsheviks and the Nazis.
The story of the flight of the author and her family through Asia
and Africa to
Australia. New
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World's
Rough Hand, The
by H. Phelps
Whitmarsh.
(ISBN 0 85905 336 9)
2005, Reprint 1898, Soft Cover, 108pp, 160grams.
Hubert Phelps
Whitmarsh arrived in Adelaide
in the mid 1880's. His crowded life as a "sailor, sundowner, miner,
shepherd, fishmonger, barber, roustabout, officer, diver and pearler"
in
South Australia,
New South Wales
and the Western Australia
coast. He returned to
England
in 1888 and was later a journalist in the United States.
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Wreck of
the Barque Stefano, The
by
Gustave Rathe.
(ISBN 0 85905 144 7), 1990,
Soft Cover, 136pp, 190grams.
The Stefano
was wrecked on the
North West
Cape
in Western Australia
in 1875. After clashes with
the natives the last two survivors were rescued by Captain Tuckey of the Jessie.
A classic of survival. New
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Wyndham- with a ton of salt
by Ken Mellowship.
(ISBN 0 85905
345 8), 2004, Soft Cover, A4, 53pp illustrated,170grams.
The people
of Wyndham on the wharf and at the meat works, the characters and their
foibles. A series of sketches of life in a forgotten town with sidelights
on the Territory and PNG during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. New
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Yalgoo by Alex Palmer.
(ISBN 0 85905
261 3), 1990 reprint of 1985 edition with new material, Soft Cover, 200pp,
illustrated, 265grams.
The history of mining and pastoral stations
in the Yalgoo district, east of Geraldton.
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Yeeramukadoo
– A saga of the North West
by
Nancy E. Withnell Taylor.
(ISBN 0 85905 097 1), reprint
of 1987 edition with new material, Soft Cover, 254pp, illustrated,
400grams.
A history of the North West
and Roebourne through the Hancock and Withnell families. New
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Youanmi:
A History of Murchison Gold by
J. Hooper.
(ISBN 0 85905 104 8), 1987, Soft
Cover, 188pp, illustrated, 250grams.
Youanmi, a goldfield's town that grew from nothing in the desert,
flowered and died. The history
of the town, its mines and people.
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Young
Soldier from the Goldfields, The
by
Roma Wood.
(ISBN 0 85905 210 9), 1995, Soft
Cover, 138pp, illustrated, 200grams.
The story of a battler’s
life from
Boulder
to the Middle East and
New Guinea, then working in the emerging North West of Australia, raising a family
in the Pilbara, the Goldfields and the Northern Territory. New
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