Jean Bull, a prominent Queensland rural journalist, weaves a picture of station life in southwest Queensland in the early 20th century from the perspective of a child growing up in the outba...
The pioneering of the Group Settlements, Kalgoorlie in the depression, riots on the goldfields, and timber milling.
To King George the Third Sound for Whales. A voyage aboard the British Whaling Vessel Kingston of London, Captain Thomas Dennis. 1800-1802. Transcribed from the original ship’s logbook by ...
A history of Marble Bar by Mrs Mallet, ex Limestone Station. A fascinating look at this quintessential Western Australian outback town from its beginnings.
A comprehensive history covering 65 expeditions to Western Australia between 1869 and 1896, including previously unknown ones.
Despite the riches around them Australians rushed to the Klondyke wastes. This is their story.
The story of John Costello's attempts to settle in the wild country on the Limmen River in the Northern Territory during the 1880s.
Ned Ridley was a well-known WA drover. This trip during WWII was blighted by disaster for the sheep, but it is a good record of a traditional droving trip.
When Tom Fisher was growing up on a farm in Western Australia in the 1920s and during the Depression of the 1930s, he never imagined that he would take part in some of the toughest naval bat...
Bushman, tracker, drover, stockman, and pastoralist. Tommy Ningebong was an extraordinary individual who spent most of his life in the Wiluna area. He was the principal witness in the trial ...