A detailed account of Austin, Nuffield, BMC Leyland’s influence in regional WA, richly illustrated with B&W and color images. No trade discount. Small run.
Savagery on the Swan River Settlement has two primary threads: the government and media of 1839 suppressed the publication of the true facts of several vicious murders of Europeans to protec...
A very small reprint of a Franklin G. Rice’s memoir of life, and death, in the Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War of 1862-65.
A magnificent volume presenting a detailed study of the Aboriginal use of pearl shell in both traditional and contemporary worlds. Fully colour illustrated, section sewn.
Mrs Garnsey was a nurse at Coolgardie amidst the rush and typhoid. A bush classic.
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 display...
The many expeditions into the desert in search of rumoured gold reefs have been overshadowed by the largely mythical account of Lasseter. Here Charnley details the men, machines, and disaste...
RAAF research at Shark Bay in WWII with descriptions of the area and a biography of GH Payne.
The biography of Dame Raigh Roe, President of the Country Woman's Association, and the story of her fight for rural women of Australia and the World.
Second only to the rebellion of Eureka Stockade, the great Queensland shearer’s strike of 1891 was suppressed with the threat of troops with artillery and machine guns. The leaders were ma...