Wallking Jetty to Jetty Stories of Broome by Nyamba Buru Yawuru Ltd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
Picture the bustle of the Roebuck Bay foreshore, where a ?forest? of luggers dominated the landscape, children played off the jetties and amongst the mangroves, and Asian, Aboriginal and European workers mingled in the work sheds and divers? quarters.Set in the heart of Yawuru country, Walking Jetty to ...Show more
A Voyage of No Importance
$22.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the true story of an epic 350 km voyage along the West Kimberley coast made by two intrepid seafarers in their 3.5 metre wooden dinghy in late 1920
The Tragic Pearl
$12.95 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
Lifted from the bed of the Indian Ocean outside La Grange Bay, North West Australia, one Saturday in August, 1905, the great pearl that figures in this story was pronounced by the few that saw it to be worth a king's ransom. Within forty-eight hours, however, it was stolen, and thereafter passed rapidly ...Show more
Pearling Days by John Brockman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
The pearling voyage of the 'Sarah' to the North West and Kimberley in 1889 and 1881, with an appendix on the death of W.H. Lowe during an expedition north east of the Gascoyne in late 1881. From John Brockman's 1912 manuscript. One of the few books on the earliest days of pearling in Western Australia. ...Show more
Kings In Grass Castles by Mary Durack
$19.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
" ... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions. The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profoun ...Show more