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Unbroken Spirit by Brian Peachey [ISBN 0 85905 275 3], (2000 New), Soft Cover, 155pp, illustrated, 230grams, $22.00 The biography of William Boxhal a convict transported in 1855. Covers the English prison system, transportation, the Western Australia penal system, and his life as an expiree, building his farm, marriage, life as a farmer and parishioner of New Norcia. Contains a detailed list of his descendents in Western Australia.
Veterans, The: A History of the Enrolled Pensioner Force in Western Australia, 1850-1880, by F.H. Broomhall [ISBN 0 85905 103 X], (1985,1989 New), Hard Cover, 472pp, illustrated, 720grams, $50.00 Contains a narrative history and extensive biographical data on its members with approximately 1,000 entries. The Guard garrisoned Western Australia for 30 years. An essential source volume for all involved in Western Australian history and genealogy.
Voice of the North, The by Jim Kelly [ISBN 0 85905 154 4], (1993 New), Soft Cover, 138pp, 190grams, $16.50 The collected bush poems of Jim Kelly are the result of his love of the bush and time in cattle camps of 60 years ago. A Kimberley classic.
Waiting For Rain by Janet Wells [ISBN 0 85905 155 2], (1991 New), Soft Cover, 36pp, 70grams, $9.00 Prize-winning poetry of the North.
Waldeck Story, The by Norma King [ISBN 0 85905 141 2], (1990 reprint of 1980 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 120pp, illustrated, 180grams, $22.00 The story of the Waldeck family of Greenough.
Walker in the Wilderness by J. Anketell [ISBN 0 85905 243 5], (1998 New), 196pp, illustrated, HC 485grams, SC 340grams, HC $40.00, SC $28.00 Surveying of the Trans-Australian railway line, the Rabbit Proof Fence and the North. A biography of R.J. Anketell.
Wanderings of Dido, The – E A Church edited by Peter J Bridge with Gail Dreezens. [ISBN 0 85905 365 2], (2007 New), Soft Cover, A4, 40 pp, saddle, 160 grams, $20* Ted Church was a prospector and raconteur of the Kalgoorlie area who recorded many of the incidents of goldfields life.
We Came Home or Return From the Land of Milk and Honey by Richard J. Armstrong [ISBN 085905 352 0] (2005 New) 211pp, A4, Perfect bound, illust., 585grams, $30.00* The author was in Changi and on the Burma railway and this is his reminiscences of men and murderers, good men and bad, with neither fear nor favour. The author is now 85 and in failing health, but all his old comrades will remember this as vintage Richard.
Wealth and Wildcats by Raymond Radcliffe [ISBN 0 85905 309 1], (2004, reprint of 1898), Soft Cover, 129 pages, Illustrated, 190grams, $22.00. Raymond Radclyffe, journalist for the London Financial Times travelled through the goldfields of Western Australia and New Zealand in the late 1890s.
Well Drilling Plants and Gasoline Engines by the Goldfields Diamond Drilling Coy. Pty. Ltd. [ISBN 978-0-85905-454-6], (?1920s, 2008), Soft Cover, 78 pages, A4, 235 grams, $25.00* This heavily illustrated catalogue and descriptive booklet of ?1920s diamond drilling equipment for water and oil is invaluable for machinery collectors and historians of the pastoral and oil drilling industry in Australia.
Western Australian Exploration 1826-1835 Volume 1 Ed. by Joanne Shoobert et. al. [ISBN 085905 351 2], (2005 new), Hard Cover, 638pp, illustrated, maps, 1.3Kg. $96.00* [Print-run 1000.] This is one of the most significant volumes ever published in W.A. and the first of its type in Australia. Few have before attempted such a project.
West Pilbara, The . Sail and Teams to Bulk Carriers and Bitumen by Doug Gordon. Reprinted with index A new edition of this popular book, now indexed. The Gordon family were pioneers of the Pilbara. Covers the early history and the development of Millstream Station, together with Doug’s life at Wittenoom and many of the NW personalities. [ISBN 978-0-85905-444-7], (2008 Reprint), 162pp, softcover, A4, illustrated, 410 grams $35.00*
Western Australia’s Tempestuous History by John Nairn [ISBN 0 85905 088 2], (1986 reprint of 1976 edition with new material), Soft Cover, illustrated by Frank Pash, Three Volumes, 158pp, Large Format, 380grams each, 3 volumes $49.50 or 1 volume $16.50 Incidents of Western Australian history brought to life.
Western Pioneers by J.E. Hammond [ISBN 0 85905 181 1], (1993 reprint of 1936 edition), Soft Cover, 134pp, illustrated, 180grams, $22.00 The reminiscences of a pioneer settler in Western Australia. Descriptions of early Perth and Geraldton, natives, the South West, people, businesses and more. A favourite.
Westminster Tradition and Australia by Professor L.R. Marchant [ISBN 0 85905 273 7], (1999 New), Soft Cover, 175pp, 235grams, $22.00 Essays on Australia's political system and its history. Essential reading for an understanding of the Constitution and Australia's past and future.
Whaleback Tales by Peter Eckhart [ISBN 0 85905 230 3], (1996 New), Soft Cover, 119pp, illustrated, 160grams, $16.50 The story of the town of Newman in its early days by the first doctor in the town.
Whatever happened to Kangaroo Kate? David Carnegie at Halls Creek. Moondyne Joe, his early life. by Peter Bridge with Gail Dreezens and Drew Deveraux. [ISBN 0 85905 416 0], (2007 New, e-published 2006, in the Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift column Vol 1 No 5) Soft Cover A4, 15pp, saddle, 90 grams, $11* Kangaroo Kate and her namesakes intrigued bush people for many years. She disappeared in 1930. A letter from Carnegie to Forrest from halls Creek in 1897. The real facts on Moondyne Joe’s origins and early life.
Wheel Tracks by W.W. Ammon [ISBN 0 85905 190 0], (1993 reprint of 1966 edition), Soft Cover, 144pp, illustrated, 190grams, $22.00 Ammon was there when camel trains gave way to trucks. His story of the early trucking days in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia is now an Australian classic.
Where Fortunes Lay by A.J. Macgeorge [ISBN 0 85905 194-3], (1993 New), Soft Cover, 186pp, illustrated, 250grams, $22.00 A biography of the finders of the Golden Mile with the story of Sam Pearce and the verse of Dorrie Doolette. A real gem of the gold rush books.
Where is Brown Hill? by Amy Moore [ISBN 0 85905 128 5], (1989 New), Soft Cover, 60pp, 115grams, $10.00 Brown Hill was a small mining community t’other side of Kalgoorlie. Now covered with mullock heaps of the new open cuts, this township and its people are recorded by Amy Moore, born and bred in this forgotten goldfield’s village.
Where on the Coast is That? by Ian Murray with Marion Hercock. [ISBN 978-0-85905-452-2],(New, 2008), Soft Cover, 350 pp, 910 grams, $ 45.00* Contains the names, location, origin, namer, and description of **** coastal place names of Western Australia. Owing to the geographical location of Western Australia at the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean, its coastal features have more than the expected Aboriginal and English place names. This is because the first European names were bestowed by Dutch navigators in the 1600s, then by English and French navigators before settlement by the English in the 1820s. The place names applied speak volumes about the motives of navigators in selecting names.
Where There’s Smoke There’s Fry by Chris Hales [ISBN 0 85905 259 1], (1999 New), Soft Cover, 196pp, illustrated, 270grams, $22.00 The biography of Alf Fry - one of the great characters of the South West of Western Australia.
White blacks and black whites edited by P.J. Bridge A. Teague & G. Dreezens. [ISBN 0 85905 436 5], (2008 New), A4, Soft Cover, 34pp, illustrated, 130grams. $22.00* From the 1830s to the 1890s many strange stories about whites amongst the blacks came in from the frontiers. Albinos, lost explorers or shipwreck survivors? This intriguing collection is from Western Australia.
White Feather by Margaret Bull [ISBN 0 85905 111 0], (1987 reprint of 1981 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 111pp 180grams, $22.00 The story of the old goldfield’s town of Kanowna.
William Ford and Coolgardie by Alice Kathleen Clemenson [ISBN 0 85905 118 8], (1988 New), Soft Cover, 151pp, illustrated, 340grams, $22.00 The biography of the discoverer of Coolgardie. Copiously illustrated.
Willshire of Alice Springs by A. Stapleton [ISBN 0 85905 177 3], (1992 New), Soft Cover, 68pp, illustrated, 150grams, $22.00 Mounted Constable Willshire of Alice Springs was tried for murder in 1891. He was acquitted but received undeserved notoriety. Details of his books and work among Aborigines.
Wiluna - edge of the desert by P.R. Heydon [ISBN 0 85905 216 8], (1996 New), Hard Cover, 624pp, illustrated, 1kg, $50.00* The history of the goldfield's town of Wiluna and its surrounds, its people and incidents in its roaring days.
Winjan's People by J.E. Hammond [ISBN 0 85605 330 X], (Reprint of 1933 edition, 1980/2005), Soft Cover, 86pp, illustrated, 125grams, $22.00 The story of the South West Australian aborigines.
Wongi Wongi by Judith Drake-Brockman [ISBN 0 85905 286 9], (2001 New), Soft Cover, 162pp, illustrated, 225grams, $22.00 An account of the relationship between the Brockman family and Aborigines on Corunna Downs station and later in Perth.
Wooden Butterflies by Anna Wiciak-Suchnicka [ISBN 0 85905 131 5], (1989 New), Soft Cover, 137pp, 210grams, $22.00 This autobiography evokes a different world in Poland, since destroyed by the Bolsheviks and the Nazis. The story of the flight of the author and her family through Asia and Africa to Australia.
World's Rough Hand, The by H. Phelps Whitmarsh [ISBN 0 85905 336 9], 2005, (Reprint 1898), Soft Cover, 108pp, 160grams, $22.00 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 South Australia, New South Wales and the Western Australia coast. He returned to England in 1888 and was later a journalist in the United States.
Wreck of the Barque Stefano, The by Gustave Rathe [ISBN 0 85905 144 7], (1990 New), Soft Cover, 136pp, 190grams, $22.00 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 survival.
Wyndham- with a ton of salt by Ken Mellowship [ISBN 0 85905 345 8], (2004 New), Soft Cover, A4, 53pp illustrated,170grams $22.00* 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 the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.
Yalgoo by Alex Palmer [ISBN 0 85905 261 3], (1990 reprint of 1985 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 200pp, illustrated, 265grams, $22.00 The history of mining and pastoral stations in the Yalgoo district, east of Geraldton.
Yammatji by Bryan Clark [ISBN 0 85905 159 5], (1992 New), Soft Cover, 208pp, illustrated, 260grams, $28.00 Biographies and history of Aborigines of the Gascoyne with many photographs and drawings.
Yeeramukadoo – A saga of the North West by Nancy E. Withnell Taylor [ISBN 0 85905 097 1], (Reprint of 1987 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 254pp, illustrated, $30.00 A history of the North West and Roebourne through the Hancock and Withnell families.
Youanmi: A History of Murchison Gold by J. Hooper [ISBN 0 85905 104 8], (1987 New), Soft Cover, 188pp, illustrated, 250grams, $25.00 Youanmi, a goldfield's town that grew from nothing in the desert, flowered and died. The history of the town, its mines and people.
Young Soldier from the Goldfields, The by Roma Wood [ISBN 0 85905 210 9], (1995 New), Soft Cover, 138pp, illustrated, 200grams, $22.00 The story of a battler’s life from Boulder to the Middle East and New Guinea, then working in the emerging North West of Australia, raising a family in the Pilbara, the Goldfields and the Northern Territory
Yundamindra by Alec Palmer [ISBN 0 85905 370 9], (2006 New), Soft Cover, 138pp, illustrated, 190 grams, $22.00 Australia-wide POSTAGE $5.50 The history of the town, station and surrounding mining areas of Yundamindra.