An important and innovative examination of geological careers in Australia.
Hubert Phelps Whitmarsh arrived in Adelaide in the mid 1880’s. His crowded life as a “sailor, sundowner, miner, shepherd, fishmonger, barber, roustabout, officer, diver and pearler” in...
The Stefano was wrecked on the North West Cape in Western Australia in 1875. After clashes with the natives the last two survivors were rescued by Captain Tuckey of the Jessie. A classic of ...
The people of Wyndham on the wharf and at the meat works, the characters and their foibles. A series of sketches of life in a forgotten town with sidelights on the Territory and PNG during t...