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
Debesa: The Story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez by Cindy Solonec
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'I listened to my family’s narratives and my ancestors began to emerge in an almost life-like way.' — Cindy Solonec This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, plac ...Show more
Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack by Patsy Millett
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Dame Mary Durack AC DBE, born to the heritage of a pioneering family, has long been recognised as one of Australia's great literary figures. Inseperable Elements- Dame Mary Durack by Patsy Millett is a daughter's perspective of her mother's life.Dame Mary Durack Miller was born into a pastoral legacy th ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
Pioneers of Nor'-West AustraliaPastoral and Pearling by Lockier Clere Burges
$22.00 AUD
Category: History
The author was an early pioneer of the NW and wrote these reminiscences in 1911. The original copies are extremely rare.
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Picked as one of Stylist magazine's 'Fiction Books You Can't Miss in 2022' and longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award 2022'Tense and vividly atmospheric, with a determined, independent heroine intent on the truth . . . beautifully written, unflinching and brimming with adventure' - Jennifer Saint, bes ...Show more
Northern Patrol
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
An Australian Saga. R.H Pilmer I have travelled many hundreds of miles under the Leadership of the Author both with camel and horse equipment in parts of Western Australia little frequented by white men David Hunter Commissioner of Police 1937
South Flows the Pearl - Chinese Australian Voices by Mavis Gock Yen; Siaoman Yen (Editor); Richard Horsburgh (Editor); Sophie Loy-Wilson (Introduction by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: China and the West in the Modern World Ser.
South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since the 1850s, as told in thei ...Show more