Hesperian Press

The 28th Battalion

Australian Imperial Force

A Record of War Service

by Harry K Kahan

ISBN 0 85905 391 1, (1969 reprint 2007), Soft Cover, A4, 140 pp, illustrated, 410grams

$30.00* + POST

The story of the 28th in France in WWI. Collett’s volume covers the unit until they arrived in France and Kahan continues the story.

Tall Trees and Tall Tales

by John Morris and Roger Underwood

Teams and Teamsters

Edited by Peter J Bridge, Gail Dreezens & Angela Teague

[ISBN 978-0-85905-433-1, (New 2010), A4, illustrated, 147pp, soft cover, 430grams

$35.00* + POST

This collection of articles from the files of Hesperian Press compares the usefulness of bullocks, donkeys, mules, horses, and camels. It then details the working of these teams. The subject of ‘near side’ and ‘off side’ is covered, as are tandem teams, loads, wagons and wagon names, accidents, wheels and tires, the roads, getting bogged and getting out, and finally the teamsters themselves.

Terry's Story - A Good Life

by Terry McKrill

ISBN 978-0-85905-023-4, (2010, New), A4, 75pp, 253grams

$22.00* + POST

The autobiography of Terry McKrill born in 1935. Brought up in the suburbs, Boranup, army life, Muralgarra sheep station, Marble Bar, Yarrie, Wittenoom, trucking, Bell Brothers, roo shooting, Ashburton, fencing, metal detector prospecting with Dick Poland, East Murchison.

Claude Choules

The Last of the Last

His Autobiography

ISBN 978-0-85905-480-5, (2009, New), Soft Cover, 160 pp, 160 x 240, illustrated, 290 grams

$25.00 +POST

With the approach of Remembrance Day (11 November) 2009, Hesperian Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the autobiography of Claude Choules. In July 2009 Claude became – as one of three surviving veterans – the only remaining combatant of WW I. He is also the last man in the world who saw active military service in both World Wars.

Then they called me Norma

by Norma King

ISBN 0 85905 124 2, (2003 new), Soft Cover, 278pp, illustrated, 385grams

$30.00 + POST

The autobiography of Goldfields author/historian and artist, Norma King. She was born in Kalgoorlie in 1922 and lived in various places in the Eastern Goldfields of WA for most of her life, married a miner at the age of seventeen, had ten children and reared nine. She began writing in 1969 after an illness that restricted her physically, and after seven of her children had left home.

There’s Gold There – Look For It

by

John Drayton

ISBN 978-0-85905-544-4, (R New 2013), A4, 128pp, 380g

$30.00* + POST

60 true tales of real finds and lost mines from Queensland to the Kimberley. Treasures from the files of John Drayton, prospector and journalist of the 1890s to 1940s. This could be the jackpot for a modern prospector. With a biographical introduction by Peter J Bridge.

Thermo-Electrical Cooking Made Easy

by Helen Nora Curle Smith
With an introductory essay, “The Kalgoorlie Stove”, by H.A. Willis

ISBN 978-0-85905-492-8, (2011 R+N), illust., 116pp., 230g

$22.00 + POST

In 1906-07, the Western Australian gold mining city of Kalgoorlie became the first place in the world to see an electric stove manufactured with the intention of bringing “cooking by electricity ... within the reach of anyone”. The ambitious enterprise brought about another world first ‑ the publication of a recipe book for electric cooking.

They Called Me

"Tjampu Tjilpi"

(Old Left Hand)

by Bob Verburgt

ISBN 0 85905 248 6, (1999 new), Soft Cover, 141mm x 215mm, 144pp, illustrated, 225grams

$22.00 + POST

The bush experience of the author as a patrol officer in the Western Desert in the 1950s and 1960s.