Hesperian Press

Yammatji

Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne

by Bryan Clark

ISBN 0 85905 159 5, (1992 new), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 208pp, illustrated, 260grams

$30.00 + POST

Biographies and history of aboriginals of the Gascoyne with many photographs and drawings.

Yeeramukadoo

A Saga of the North West

by Nancy Withnell Taylor

ISBN 0 85905 097 1, (2002 reprint of 1987 edition with new material), Soft Cover, 254pp, illustrated, 340grams

$30.00 + POST

A history of the North West and Roebourne through the Hancock and Withnell families. 

Yerilla

by Alex Palmer

ISBN 0-85905-466-7, (2002, R 2009), 84pp, illust.,  125g

$22.00 + POST

Yerilla, relatively unheard of for its gold production between 1895 and the present, is renowned world wide among the gemstone fraternity for its ‘green gold’.

Chrysoprase (‘green gold’) the most valuable gemstone of the quartz family has been mined there for forty years. Few however, until now, have been aware of the machinations and intrigue that have been associated with its extraction.

Yerilla covers the history of this eastern goldfields area (east of Menzies) from the gold rush of the 1890s to the present time.

Youanmi

A Story of Murchison Gold

by Jean Hooper

ISBN 0 85905 104 8, (1987 new), Soft Cover, 188pp, illustrated, 250grams

$25.00 + POST

Youanmi was a goldfield's town that grew from nothing in the desert, flowered briefly and died.  This book tells the history of the town, its mines and its people.

THE AUTHOR

The author is a grand-niece of Alfred Evans, one of the original leaseholders on the Youanmi field. Both sides of her family are from a goldfields' background.  She was born in Perth in 1922, attended Perth Modern School from 1935 to 1939 and graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1942.  She has previously published short stories and textbooks and now lives in Sydney.

The Young Soldier from the Goldfields

by Roma Wood

ISBN 0 85905 210 9, (1995 new), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 138 pp, illustrated, 200grams

$22.00 + POST

The story of a battler’s life from his early days in Boulder to service in the Middle East and New Guinea during World War II, then working in the emerging North West of Australia, raising a family in the Pilbara, and the Goldfields before retiring to Batchelor, Northern Territory.

THE AUTHOR

Roma Wood, born in Port Hedland of Chinese, Javanese and Aboriginal descent, met and married Ted Wood, a returned soldier.  Roma lives in Darwin and is active in volunteer community work with Legacy and welfare groups for the disabled.

Yundamindra

by Alec Palmer

ISBN 0 85905 370 9, (2006 new), Soft Cover, 138pp, illustrated, 190grams

$22.00 + POST

Cradled between the ancient shorelines of Lakes Raeside and Carey are found the old gold mining centres of Yundamindra Linden, Pennyweight Point, Pykes Hollow, Eucalyptus and Yundamindra Pastoral Station. Their story, together with the lives of the folk, black and white, who forged a living here over the years are brought together in Yundamindra's pages.