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We have had several queries from overseas translators checking whether we are advertising for translators.

Criminally inclined Chinese operators are using a close adaption of our name in a @gmail account to solicit such work.

We have observed Chinese gangsters trying it on for our name in the past.

In the past we have noted Chinese criminals involved in book stealing rackets in Western Australia. 

They were just in advance of the criminally destructive policies of the State Library.

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SEARCHING.

 On our downloadable booklist is a limited subject index. After each entry in [ ] are letters indicating general subjects. These are for the States. WA, NT, SA, VIC, NSW, TAS, Q. Areas of WA – K (Kimberley), CAN (Canning), NW, MUR, CEN, SW, WAR (Warburton), EUC (Eucla). See the map (page 2) delineating these. Also PNG, NZ, USA, AFrica, CA Canada, OS overseas. MIL military, MAR maritime, AIR aviation, ANI animals, AB aboriginal, MIN minerals – mining, geology, minerals, BIO biography, BIOL biology, H health+, VER verse, COM comic, CON convicts, EX exploration, AFG afghans, FOR Forestry, WOO woodlines, PAS pastoral & droving, POL police, crime, CSR Canning SR, TRAN transport, ART art

Place the required subject, eg. [MIL] in your search bar and drop down through the list. Eventually we will combine all the individual book indexes on the website as a massive master index for search

This Home Page list is the new releases. 

See the Main Booklist for full details.

We have rarely changed the prices upwards on our books. Plenty have been discounted.

However, with a combination of declining sales, declining stocks, and greatly increased production costs some changes are necessary.

Reprinting of many core titles has generally not been viable. But when we do this the runs are much smaller.

So costs per copy are higher. So usually these will have reduced trade discounts, marked with a * on the listed price.

We are on the tail end of the following titles, Black and white, Yammaji, Youanme.

The prices of the remaining stock are now raised to fit in with the new pricing if/when we reprint. All are now rrp $40.00*

Most of our titles will not be reprinted when they become out of print. Then the rare book sellers will have a field day.

Obituary

Lex Bastian.

12 September 2026.

Geologist and founder of the WA Speleological Group in 1958. I met Lex and June in ~1959 and first went caving in 1960. (I think that now makes me the oldest member of that group). Lex was a keen caver until recent years. We republished his report on the discovery of the Jewel Cave at Augusta. Most of his WA work was published in The Western Caver. His wife June accompanied him on most trips.

Lex was at the BMR in Canberra and eventually ended up working with me at the Mineral Division of the WA Government Chemical Laboratories.

Neville Green (1933-2026)

The passing of Neville Green is not only the passing of a good man, but that of an era and outlook that is sadly lacking in today’s academia.

Both with his own publishing and via Hesperian, he was met with obstruction and the viciousness of the irrational left. While I did not necessarily agree with some of his work, I fully respected his right to say so. Having spent many hours with him discussing the savagery of his detractors, and having endured poisoning from the same sources, he found a sympathetic ear in my home and office.

Personally, I believe he should have made public some of the ‘dirt’, (which one accumulates), on our mutual enemies.  He was an old military man and knew how to fight. Never-the-less, the files survive, and while Neville has his cross, they will get their ‘stake’.

Hesperian published:–

Triumphs and Tragedies. Oombulgurri. (2011)

Into the Arms of Death. (2020)

Upgraded edition of Commandant of Solitude. (2021)

The Aborigines of earliest Albany. (2026)

Further works will be published or reprinted as capital and time permit.

Philosophy lessons.
 

"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
 

"Censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is weak."—Julian Assange.
 

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."—Marcus Aurelius

Why multiculturalism must be annihilated in Australia

By Dr. Stephen Chavura, January 22, 2025

As above, so below.

That’s worse than it sounds in Canada. Canada’s literary scene is very Soviet. The entire thing is supported by government funding, and one’s existence within it has precisely nothing to do with market demand for one’s work – which is generally nonexistent for CanLit – and everything to do with maintaining a good reputation amongst the literary councils, which in turn rests upon saying only the Approved Things in any and all public and private circumstances. That cozy Stalinist cloister of cynically disingenuous literary incest is exactly as effective at producing compelling literature as you’d expect.

Must reads on the joys of multiculturalism:- https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net; UNZ.com

 COMING SOON 

The Stockdale saga.

Swan River letters vol 2 Ian Berryman.

Leo Gugeri biography. Michael Gugeri.

Fairbairn’s Fiasco. Ed Peter J. Bridge

Ian Murray autobiog. Ian Murray.

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 200^th 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.

The Camden Harbour Fiasco. A Nineteenth Century Western Australian Story.

Graeme Blake.

ISBN 978-1-923560-61-1, A4, 484 pages, French flaps, illustrated, **grams, $120.00*

In November 1864 at the beginning of a tropical summer, 124 men, women and children boarded three sailing ships in Victoria. With them they had 5000 head of sheep, supplies for 12-18 months, domestic cattle, a range of poultry, building materials, dogs and horses. Their destination was Camden Harbour, approximately 300kms north of Derby in Northwest Australia. They arrived on Christmas Eve 1864.

We have to ask ourselves how this all came about, what made them think it was a good idea to arrive in the tropics at the height of the wet season. They did not have paddocks or security for their livestock. They did not have watering places for their livestock.

In this book, I have given a considered explanation, using historical documentation and newspaper reports of how this all came about.

This is their story. It has everything, from disillusioned British Naval commanders, armchair geographers, entrepreneurial explorers, gold promoting conmen, dodgy explorations, boat wrecks, Munchausen land agents, marauding Malay pirates, Aboriginal attacks, military martinets, and a narcissistic man of God, and they had FOMO, a fear of missing out. It includes the longest open boat journey in Australian maritime history and an account of life in Western Australia’s first temporary, administrative outpost established in 1865 to oversee the doomed settlement scheme and maintain British law in the remote Kimberley region.  Included are stories of the young men who came looking for good land and went on to help write the history of Western Australia.

[WA] [K] [EX] [BIO] [PAS] [ABO] [CON] [POL] [TRAN]

Death at Dawn. The Fatal Fremantle Duel of 1832.

Rod Moncrieff.

ISBN 978-1-923560-46-8, (New, 2026), A4, 94 pages, illustrated, 450 grams, $40.00*.

On the morning of Friday, 17 August 1832, two professional gentlemen drew their pistols on the banks of the Swan River at Fremantle.  As a consequence, one man died and the other was charged with wilful murder. This is the compelling true story of George French Johnson, merchant, and William Nairne Clark, solicitor. [WA] [BIO] [POL] [SW]

Desert Explorations. A History of the Central Deserts 1847-1929.

Peter J. Bridge and Mark Chambers.

ISBN 978-1-675778-87-4, (New, 2026), A4, 551 pages, indexed, 2.1kg, $110.00*

A systematic collection of the diaries, reports, records etc of those who explored the great deserts of WA, NT and SA, with hundreds of expeditions and travellers recorded. This is not a coffee table of flash but an essential volume of the WA Exploration Diaries Project. Most of the material has not been, or rarely, been seen before. Compiled from the systematic collections of the editors. [BIO] [SA] [NT] [WAR] [NW] [CAN] [K] [CEN] [MUR] [EUC] [AB [MIN] [BIOL] [EX] [AFG] [PAS]

Early Days of Yilgarn and Coolgardie Goldfields.
J. Cooper.

ISBN 978-1-923560-66-6, A5, 13 pages, indexed, $10.00*

The story from one of the pioneer prospectors. [CEN] [MIN] [BIO]

Entombed in a Mine.

ISBN 978-1-923560-65-9, (1914, R, 2026), A5, 12 pages, illustrated, indexed, $10.00*

Michael O’Brien and mates were entombed in a Marvel Loch mine in 1914. [MIN] [BIO] [CEN]

The Goanna Patch. The discovery of a rich gold show north of Leonora by native stockmen in 1958.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-923560-49-9, (New, 2026), A4, 30 pages, well illustrated, 130 grams, $25.00*

The famous Goanna Patch discovery created much interest. Previously unseen photos of the time and news and govt files are used to record the event and its aftermath.

Last Voyage of MV Tulagi. Chronicles of Survival.

Ed by Ned Overton.

ISBN 978-1-923560-59-8, (New, 2026), A4, 103 pages, illustrated – B&W, col, indexed, maps. 320 grams, $40.00*

Torpedoed and sunk in 1944. The survivors were then two months drifting on two rafts across the Indian Ocean. Only one raft survived the landing in the Seychelles. From the diary of the second officer, Richard Thomas Charles and reports by others. Our Editor had a personal interest in the once lost story. One of those lost was the first husband of his mother. A great read. [OS] [MIL] [MAR] [BIO] [TRAN]

The Lubra and the Ferret. Sea tales of the south and west coasts.

Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-923560-39-0, (New, 2026), A4, 16 pages, illustrated, 100 grams, $22.00*

Several recently acquired water colours from the 1890s - early 1900s of Adelaide Steamship Company ships are illustrated together with the story of the ships and their demise. Both served on the west coast.

Major Logue’s Diaries of Ellendale. (1850-1900)

Transcribed and edited by Dr Nan Broad.

ISBN 978-1-923560-29-1, (2026, New), A4 in two volumes, french flap cover, illustrated, 1124 pages, 3kg, $360.00*

Note – The price is merely a token of the costs of production. The diaries are published for the historical record. Postage will use the AP 5kg satchels.

These unique colonial diaries of Major Logue who settled Ellendale on the Greenough have been the object of much angst by the usual gang of whacked out literary(?) terrorists. The Guardian rag fulminated at length over the possibility of the omission of the code in which the author recorded the settler’s reactions to the attacks of the local tribes. These codes are fully detailed in facsimile. The records of these attacks are also being prepared for publication. The cannibal crimes and spearings are not publicised by the proto-revolutionary state funded researchers and publishers. To them only the White man is racist and reprehensible. That’s what the Bolsheviks said before committing the greatest mass murders of the 20^th century. The serial crime families are solidly represented among the activists. Readers - You have been warned!

After many years of work these volumes will shortly be available in a very limited edition. Circulation will be at the copyright owner’s discretion and severely restricted. Inevitably there will be complaints about the availability, but the whiners are not paying the bills. Interested persons are requested to apply to the publisher for consideration of supply.

The Mineralogical Research Papers of Peter J Bridge 1968-1991.

Peter J Bridge.
ISBN 978-1-875778-99-7, (New, 2025), A4, 146 pages, illustrated, 620 grams, $ 50.00*

The collected papers describing new and rare minerals, mainly from Western Australia. Includes an illustrated biographical reminiscence of the author’s time at the WA Government Chemical Laboratories and notes on his fellow workers. [BIO] [MIN] [CEN] [EX] [AB] [TRAN]

Notes on the Aborigines of Roebuck Bay, W.A. 

Ada Janet Peggs.

(1903 R 2026), ISBN 978-1-923560-57-4, A4, 45 pages, illustrated, 180 grams, $35.00

Records of the Broome area aboriginals made in 1898-1901. [K], [AB],

The North-West in 1934.

Philos – W Burgoyne.

ISBN 978-1-923560-63-5, (1934, R, 2026), A4, 19 pages, indexed, 100 grams, $22.00*

A ministerial visit to the NW. [NW] [BIO] [PAS] [TRAN]

On the Palmer River by the side of the Golden Gate.

A Wanderer.

ISBN 978-1-923560-52-9, (1897, New, 2026), A5, 9 pages, $10.00*

An interesting item where west is east, and east, west where lives cross unexpectedly. [QLD] [USA] [AB] [CHIN]

Pearling Stories.

Collected By Peter J. Bridge.

ISBN 978-1-923560-58-1, (1875-1971, R, 2026), A4, 41 pages, indexed, $30.00*

Selections historical and salacious, a good non-PC read. [NW] [K] [BIO] [MAR] [AB]

A Record Droving Trip. Across Australia with Walter H. Rose.

John Fanning. Ed by Peter J Bridge & Gail Dreezens.

ISBN 978-1-923560-62-8, (1905 RN 2026), A4, indexed, 56 pages, 190 grams, $35.00*

The great 1905 drove from Kimberley to Queensland.

[K][NT][Q][AB][BIO][PAS][PNG][OS]

The Quartermaine expedition diaries.

Keith Quartermaine.

ISBN 978-1-923560-00-0 to 978-1-923560-24-6, A4, ~1800  pages, illustrated, 5.6kg, $912.00

Between 1952 and 1975 Keith Quartermaine compiled extended detailed and illustrated reports and maps of the travels of his team of Kalgoorlie School of Mines friends and local bushmen. The first organised exploration of the Nullarbor caves; out to the edge of the desert; and along the little travelled areas of the south coast. The later diaries are records of their hunt for meteorites mainly in the eastern goldfields area. The reports and photographs record the areas before the disturbances of modern mining. The local people and station life are well recorded. Twenty sets only of the 25 reports have been printed. They range from 25 to 152 pages.  Perhaps, if there is interest and pre-orders, consideration will be given to sales of individual items. [CEN] [EUC] [BIO] [EX] [MIN] [AB] [PAS] [TRAN]

Quartermaine expedition reports.

1. The Inland Sea or Carry on Regardless. Nullarbor caves 1952. 152pp. $65.00*

2. The Woodall Expedition. Nullarbor caves 1953. 103pp. $50.00*

3. Queen Victoria's Spring and Streich's Mound. 39pp. $22.00*

4. Pimpernal Baxter. Nullarbor south coast. 107pp. $50.00*

5. Follow the Leader. Nullarbor south coast. 65pp. $35.00*

6. Mount Ragged and Israelite Bay in Retrospect. 48pp. $25.00*

7. Stardust. Meteorite hunting. 103pp. $50.00*

8. Mrs Ethel Simmons. Cook and Sinclair families. 51pp. $30.00*

9. Operation Pannikin. Meteorite hunting. 63pp. $35.00*

10. Some Fella Bin Took ‘em. The Story of the Mt Egerton Meteorite. 61pp. $35.00*

11. Cleaning up Australia and Avoca. Meteorite hunting. 77pp. $40.00*

12. Flanagan (The Wiluna Meteorite) and Credo, Fenbark and Wildara. 66pp. $35.00*

13. Lightning Does Strike Twice. Nullarbor Walkabout. Meteorites. 111pp. $50.00*

14. The Grey Ghost. South Yilgarn. 67pp. $35.00*

15. At Last. Baxter memorial. 31pp. $22.00*

16. Don't let me Disturb You (Cleaning up the Malga North Shower). Fraser Range, Ularring & Menangina. 115pp. $50.00*

17. Shades of Gray. Meteorites. 20pp. $22.00*

18. The Fringe Dwellers. Meteorite hunting. 81pp. $40.00*

19. The Byro Ring. Gascoyne. 38pp. $22.00*

20. The Hobza and Trailer. More about the Billy Goat Donga Meteorite Shower. 74pp, $40.00*

21. Tinned Dog. Yerilla area and australites. 78pp. $40.00

22. Shades of JPB. Balbinia and Israelite Bay. 111pp $45.00*

23. The Laverton Affair. 21pp. $22.00*

24. A Remarkable Story. N of Kalgoorlie. Meteorites. 56pp. $30.00*

25. Deleted.

26. Wangalli. NE of Kalgoorlie. 30pp. $22.00*

Some account of a brumby-trap.
LB Jupp.

ISBN 978-1-923560-41-3, (R, 2026), 10pp, $10.00.

An account of brumby trapping at the back of Mundaring in the early 1900s.

South Coast Explorations in the 1890s. Police, prospectors and natives to the Bremer Ranges, Peak Charles and Mount Ridley.

ISBN 978-1-923560-53-6, (New, 2026), A5, 9 pages, indexed, $10.00* [SC] [POL] [EX]

Two Years in Carpentaria.

James Abercrombie.

ISBN 978-1-923560-64-2, (1869, R, 2026), A4, 15 pages, map, indexed, 85 grams, $22.00*

Tough life in the newly settled north, storms, savages, and good mates. [QLD] [PAS] [AB] [OS] [AB] [BIO]