The Aborigines of earliest Albany. An annotated index to the published 1830-31 journal of Captain Collet Barker.
Neville Green, Mary Anne Jebb and Mark Chambers.
ISBN 978-1-923560-33-8, (new, 2026), A4, 91 pages, illustrated, 275 grams, $35.00*
An important and useful reference for early Albany to mark the 200th year of European settlement in Western Australia.
Little of relevance has been published or is proposed for publication by the comatose state and local governments to mark this occasion.
However we at Hesperian, aware of the low cultural IQ of those in power have been preparing relevant publications for public enlightenment.
Captain Collet Barker’s diaries, published as Commandant of Solitude, were prepared by John Mulvaney and Neville Green, Hesperian Press, 2021
John Sweetman’s The Military Establishment and Penal Settlement at King George Sound. Hesperian Press 1989.
Also to mark the Anniversary is William Thacker and New Holland. Peter Bridge and Richenda Bridge. Hesperian Press 2026. This details the life of the first British settler in WA who arrived as a convict on the Amity in 1826. All the rest of that ‘first fleet’ returned to NSW. Thacker left for the Swan River, marrying a girl from the Rockingham. His great grandfather had visited Western Australia in 1688 with William Dampier on the Cygnet.