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The Macedonians in Australia
by Peter Hill
This very readable book by Professor Peter Hill tells of the origins and life of the Macedonians in Australia.
It is an important book for all Macedonians and their Australian children, as well as schools and libraries.
THE AUTHOR
Peter Hill is married to a Macedonian Australian. He majored in Russian and Germanic Studies at the University of Melbourne and after post graduate work in Slavonic Studies, German Literature and General Linguistics at the University of Hamburg he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1972. He is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Hamburg.
Claude de Bernales
The Magnificent Miner
ISBN 0 85905 200 1, (1996 new), Soft Cover, 340pp, illustrated, 450grams
$35.00 + POST
Claude de Bernales was undoubtedly controversial but in Western Australia his mining activities helped keep the State afloat.
Colebatch details his origins, rise, fall and legacy.
The Maguire Mystery
by WC Charnley
ISBN 978-0-85905-008-1, (2010, R), 22pp, illust, SC, B5, 50grams
$8.00 + POST
A stirring story of Northern Australia. Seeking mother-o'-pearl shell and a rich tin deposit, three adventurous young men set out in a small ketch for the lonely Kimberley coast.
They had been warned as to the treachery of the wild blacks, and took every precaution against attack. Nevertheless, disaster overtook them. Their lugger was found sailing herself, with blood upon her deck, but despite all the efforts of the police, the exact fate of the luckless trio remains in doubt.
Major the Outlaw
by WC Charnley
ISBN 978-0-85905-003-6, (2010, R), 23pp, illust, SC, B5, 50grams
$8.00 + POST
"Major" was a fine type of Australian black-fellow, and might have lived and died as a useful member of society but for the deep-laid vengeance of "a woman scorned." Plotting with Machiavellian cunning, she first induced him to commit murder and then helped the police to hunt him down. Finally, when a bullet had put an end to his ill-starred career, she proceeded, like a dutiful wife, to mourn his loss!
Man From Arltunga
Walter Smith - Australian Bushman
by R.G. Kimber
ISBN 0 85905 225 7, (1996 reprint of 1986 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 193pp, illustrated, 250grams
$25.00 + POST
The biography of Walter Smith (1893-1990), drover, prospector, dogger and bushman, one of the identities of the Northern Territory.
Mates and Gold
Reminiscences of the early Westralian Goldfields.
1890-1896
by N.K. Sligo
ISBN 0 85905 195 1, (1995 reprint of 1980 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 259pp, illustrated, 340grams
$30.00 + POST
The greatest of the Western Australian 1890’s gold rush reminiscences.
Mates and Gold tells of bush life in the Western Australian desert, dangerous journeys and lonely deaths by typhoid, thirst, murder, spearing and retributional massacre. Vast new goldfields, gold won - and lost. Of bush mates and memories of a life long past.
Mates and Gold is an insight into the fortitude and humour with which the early prospectors faced the harshness of the goldfields. It is one of the few books on the great 1890s goldrush written by one of the original prospectors.
This is a great read.
McLennan's Way
The Bush Ballads of Lex McLennan 1909 - 1969
edited by Jean Green and James Fitzgerald
ISBN 0 85905 201 X, (1994 new), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 82pp, 125grams
$16.50 + POST
The poetry of one of Australia’s best balladists.
Meekatharra
"End of the Earth"
by P.R. Heydon
ISBN 0 85905 196 X (1994 new), Hard Cover, 438 pp, illustrated, 660grams
$40.00 + POST
Meekatharra - "End of the Earth" celebrates the centenary of Meekatharra and covers the period 1894 to 1994. It tells of the gold discoveries and the ups and downs of gold mining. Being the railhead for the vast hinterland to the north and the northwest, stories abound of transport by donkey and camel teams; of the early motor vehicles; and the present day road trains.
Megisti in the Antipodes
by John Yiannakis
ISBN 0 85905 218 4, (1996 new), Hard Cover, 147mm x 222mm, 276pp. illustrated, 470grams
$40.00 + POST
A study of the Castellorizian Greeks in Western Australia.
Memoirs of a Spanish Missionary Monk
by Seraphim Sanz de Galdeano OSB MBE OAM CSM
ISBN 0 85905 386 5, (2006 New), Soft Cover, 260pp, illust, 350grams
$35 + POST
Seraphim Sanz de Galdeano was born in Spain in 1913, the eighth of ten children. At eleven years of age he heard Dom Anselm Catalan of New Norcia, Western Australia speak of the need for missionaries to work with the Australian Aborigines in far flung areas of Australia. From that time, young Seraphim decided to dedicate his life to this mission.