PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.
Darkest Western Australia
by H.G.B. Mason
ISBN 0 85905 014 9, (1980 reprint of 1909 edition), Soft Cover, 148mm x 210mm, 74pp, illustrated, 130grams
$22.00 + POST
The best bushman’s advice book written, with his solution to the “native question”!
Darwin Dilemmas
by Ron Brown & Pat Studdy-Clift
ISBN 0 85905 164 1, (1992 new), Soft Cover, 188pp, illustrated, 260grams
$22.00 + POST
Darwin life just before and during World War II. An important eye witness account.
Desert, Drought and Death
The Border Exploration Syndicate Expedition to the Rawlinson Range 1899 – 1900
by Henry William Hill (edited by Mark Chambers and Peter J. Bridge)
ISBN 978-0-85905-383-9, (2009 new), case bound, dust jacketed, 158pp, illustrated, 465 grams
$70.00* + POST
Following reports of gold in the far-off Rawlinson Range an expedition was organized by the Border Exploration Syndicate. This book is the story of the expedition as written by the leader, Henry W. Hill.
Dicks & Dickheads
I Have Known
The Memoirs of a Pox Doctor
by Leo Laden - Cartoons by R. Stein
ISBN 0 85905 215 X, (1991, 1996 and 2009), Soft Cover, 168pp, 230grams
$22.00 + POST
Written by a doctor who wanted to be an artist and illustrated by a dentist who thinks he is an American Civil War soldier, this book is funny, irreverent, honest, provocative and at times, very sad. From the desert sands of Aden to the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, Dr Leo Laden records some of is experiences in a witty and easy to read style.
Digging, Squatting
and
Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia
by Mrs Dominic D. Daly
A pioneering classic from first settlement to 1887. Vivid description of life and events that shaped the destiny of the Northern Territory.
Diogenes
by George Pavlu
ISBN 085905 325 3, (2003 new), Soft cover, illustrated, 185grams
$16.50 + POST
.... here is a book that barks at fleas with cynic wit. And what a restorative sight - Diogenes the Dog snapping at the heels of 'homo consumerus' at prayer in their temples to modernity - Shopping Malls - urging the decidedly un-chic virtue of frugality: to know that enough is enough IS ENOUGH!
Do Not Yield To Despair
The Exploration Diaries of Frank Hann 1895--1908
edited by Mike Donaldson and Ian Elliot
ISBN 085905 226 5, (1998 new), Case Bound, A4 size, 440pp illustrated, 1.4kg
$95.00* + POST
Frank Hann was one of the greatest bushman in Australia. He travelled from Northern Queensland through the Territory to the Kimberley and finally to Laverton and the Eastern Goldfields where he spent his life exploring the desert.
These unique diaries record his travels and life and are essential reading for anyone travelling the Western Australian and Northern Territory deserts.
Dollypot
edited by P.J. Bridge
ISBN 0 85905 100 5, (1987 new), 168pp, 152mm x 222mm, illustrated, 350grams
SC $22.00, HC $30.00 + POST
Dollypot is a magnificent collection of prospectors' and miners' stories from the pages of the old Western Mail newspaper.
Humour, sadness, thirst, booze, hard luck, life, people and poetry of the goldfields - from the Kimberley in the north to Ravensthorpe in the south east of Western Australia.
Down the Dinbole
by Bonnie Milne
ISBN 0 85905 348 2, (2004 new),125pp, illustrated, 165 grams
SC $22.00 + POST
Bonnie Milne grew up on an isolated sheep station in the Upper Gascoyne district.
This is a light hearted look at family life on Coor de Wandie station
The Drover's Scrapbook
edited by Peter J Bridge and Gail Dreezens
ISBN 978-0-85905-428-7, (2008), A4, 127pp, illustrated, Soft Cover, 370 grams
$30.00* + POST
A collection of reports and reminiscences of WA droving from the 1880s to the 1950s, giving many names and records of trips with sheep and cattle from the north to the southern markets.
Droving Days
by H.M. Barker
ISBN 0 85905 197 8, (1994 reprint of 1966 edition), Soft Cover, 140mm x 215mm, 124pp, illustrated, 175grams
$22.00 + POST
The acute powers of observation and vivid recollection of years spent in the bush that characterised his Camels and the Outback are again delightfully shown by H.M. Barker.
After highlighting the achievements of some of the best known of the early pioneers - Hawden, Tyson, de Satge, Sutherland, Gray, Buchanan, Christison and Cotton - he introduces the pleasures, rigours, vagaries and discomforts of droving as he experienced them.
Droving with Ben Taylor
Up and down the Canning Stock Route in 1946
by Len Hill
ISBN 978-0-85905-472-0, (New 2009), 236pp, Soft Cover, 310 grams
$33.00. + POST
Droving with Ben Taylor is based on the diary of a Canning Stock Route drover. It is the only droving diary known from the 50 years of operation of the CSR, the longest and most remote stock route in the world. Here, detailed, the old hand, Ben Taylor, teaches the youthful Len Hill the art of droving in the desert lands. With horses and camels from Wiluna to Billiluna, and return with cattle, this unique account describes the pleasures and duties of a drovers life, the cattle, the land, and its inhabitants. Len Hill is a retired Kimberley pastoralist. Among his many local roles he was a Halls Creek Shire Councillor, a member of the Kimberley Zone Development Committee, and a JP.
The Dying World in Northwest Australia
by Helmut Petri (With a Foreword by Susan Bradley and Introduction by Kim Akerman)
ISBN 978-0-85905-091-3, (New, 2011), 286pp, 160 x 240, illust., 660g
$45.00 + POST
Prior to leading the Twenty-second Frobenius Expedition (1938-1939), to the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, Helmut Petri had developed a wide range of interests that encompassed the fields of physical anthropology, ethnology, history, prehistory, economics and philosophy.