Charlie Gaunt arrived in the Northern Territory in 1878 as a young teenager. His adventurous life there and in NQ is detailed with many bloody meetings with the tribesmen. Pearling, prospect...
Jean Christopher de Lancourt, an enigmatic “French” traveller, raconteur, and soldier, wrote of his experiences while walking around Australia for a wager. Bill de Burgh has collected an...
A collection of prospectors’ and miners’ stories with magnificent photographs of mining life now long past.
Oldfield was a botanical collector with a great interest in Aboriginals. This 1864 work with an extensive introduction by H.H. is virtually unknown to anthropologists and is not known in mos...
A brief work on the native people of Central and Western Australia.
A comprehensive history of the Swan District, featuring illustrations.
Autobiography and history of Muccan Station in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
The story of a prospector searching for gold in the Eastern Goldfields after WWI.
Details the destruction of books, documents, and artefacts in Western Australia.
The story of Jack McNamara's gem hunting adventures in the 1960s.