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Arnhem Land Police Diaries by Constable Morey

Brand on his Coat, The by Rica Erickson
Biographies of Western Australian transportees of the 19th century.

First Five Hundred, The E.S. & C.G.S. Whitely
An index of the names of settlers who came to the Swan River settlement of Western Australia between 2nd June 1829 and 14th November, 1829. 

Ghosts of Hamelin Bay by Garry Teahan
The history of Hamelin Bay.  The timber industry, shipping, pioneers and more.

Gold on the Murchison by P.R. Heydon
A history of the Murchison goldfield towns of Cue and Day Dawn.

 

Journey Across the Western Interior of Australia by P.E. Warburton
Diary of Warburton's 1873 epic desert journey.

Murchison Gold Discoveries by Phil Heydon
A history of all the gold rushes of the Murchison goldfields from the early 1890s.

Nullarbor’s Doorstep, The by A. Crocker
The natural history of the western Nullarbor Plain as told by a well-known artist Amy Crocker of Balladonia Station.

 

Overlanders, The edited by P.J. Bridge
The stories of those who walked, pushed barrows, rode pushbikes, camels, horse and covered wagons across the Nullarbor from the 1870s to the sealing of the road in the 1960s.

The Ride of the Ragged Thirteen by Peter Bridge and Cathie Clement
The life and times of a band of adventurers whose name has echoed through the Australian bush for over a century.

Robert Austin - Explorer by Ken Leighton
The biography and diaries of Robert Austin, discoverer of the Murchison Goldfields, 1854.

Shearers of the Never Never by Reg Dunbar
A richly illustrated account of a shearer’s life in the north of Western Australia.

Stone Age Bushmen of Today by J.R.B. Love
Subtitled “Life and Adventures Among a Tribe of Savages in North West Australia”.  The Worora tribe of the Kimberley Coast. (In Preparation).

 

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EXPLORERS' DIARIES
Exact transcriptions of diaries of exploration in Western Australia.

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