The history of the people, horses, and place of the fabled Landor bush races of the North West of Western Australia. A racing classic.
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 ...
An important reminiscing history of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. Biographical details of more than 400 early goldfielders. Fully indexed.
Andrews spent many years on the Nullarbor and knew its secrets well. He writes of the native tribes, strange minerals, and the early coastal shipping. Shipwrecks, sandalwood, sealing and sai...
The story of the families on Carlton Hill, Ningbing, and Legune Stations in the early 1900s.
Arthur Vogan was a journalist, explorer, photographer, artist. These are his reports on the mines of Kalgoorlie and the surrounding areas in the mid 1890s.
Journalist and returned soldier, Norman Malcolm (d1926), once well known, and whose biography is outlined, wrote of developing pastoral stations of the North. This collection describes the p...
Bill Peasley and his associates travelled to the Great Sandy Desert in 1976. They brought into civilisation the last of the ‘wild’ aboriginals who had, because of tribal laws, chosen to ...
Daisy Bates was an intrepid reporter who was well used to tough travelling. She examined many of the Murchison mines in their fledgling days.
The final volume in Lesley’s “Explorers Routes Revisited” series that have examined the results, plants, animals, and people in the new old lands that the explorers found. All Lesley...