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An Island Unto Itself: William Dampier and New Holland
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The biography and history of W. Dampier, his times and exploration in WA 1688-1699.
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Australian Cyclopedias Compendium Set
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The Australian Cyclopedias are an incredibly important resource for all historians researching Australian history, but just what are they, and what do they contain ...
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Bowyangs and Boomerangs: Reminiscences of 40 Years Prospecting in Australia and Tasmania
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Facsimile f the original 1944 edution. This is M.J. O'Reilly, or 'Mulga Mick' as he was known, autobiographical account of his life in Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia and ...
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C.Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy
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Charles Yelverton O'Connor is a legendary figure in early colonial civil engineering. But the fame of his great works, particularly the Goldfields Pipeline Scheme, which brought water 560 ...
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Calvert's Golden West: Albert Frederick Calvert, a Biography an Bibliography
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Albert Frederick Calvert claimed that he was born in Australia of an Australian born father. If this is correct, this would make him the only Australian born author to have ...
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Cyclopedia of Western Australia 1912-13
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The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a vast resource of historical and biographical information.
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Dictionary of Western Australians Volume 10: Far From Home, Aboriginal Prisoners of Rottnest Island 1838-1931
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A biographical listing of more than 3600 Aboriginal prisoners who served time on Rottnest Island. Also included is a historical account of the Rottnest establishment and prison life, describing the ...
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Ernest Giles: Explorer and Traveller 1835-1897
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Between 1872 and 1876 Ernest Giles led 5 expeditions into Australia's western
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Exploring Expedition Through the Interior of Australia 1844
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In 1844 Ludwig Leichardt led his first expedition to Port Essington in the Northern Territory. Complete with details of the route traveled, and what they saw, this publication recounts the journey.
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Fifty Years Afloat: The Autobiography of a Ferryman
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'Fifty Years Afloat' details the Rottnest and Swan River ferry boats and the men who ran them.P Hugh Cameron's interesting and well-written account of his experience in small vessels, particularly ...
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First Families of the Swan River Colony
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The Swan River Pioneers 1829-1838 Special Interest Group in conjunction with the Western Australian Genealogical Society, as part of Western Australia's 175th Anniversary have produced this CD-ROM.p This ...
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Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872-1874
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The book consists of Giles' diaries kept during his first two expeditions from central Australia, (i.e. the area around Ayres Rock, now Uluru), west in search of a route ...
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In Australian Tropics
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Facsimilies of the 1909 edition. In this reprint of the original, the author (Alfred Searcy), a customs officer who, for fourteen years was stationed at Port Darwin in the Northern ...
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Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell arrived in Sydney, having accepted the position of Assistant Surveyor-General in New South Wales. Between 1831 and 1864 he led four expeditions. The journal of his last is described here.
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Leaves From a Prospectors Diary
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James Edmund Tregurtha was born on 22 April 1867 at Deniliquin, New South Wales, to James Bryant ant Frances Marguarite Tregurtha. He was apprenticed at fifteen to a ...
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Moondyne Joe: The Man and the Myth
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Joseph Bolitho Johns 'Moondyne Joe', (or 'Moonie' to his mates) was a good badman who gallops across the pages of Western Australian history with all the spirit of a wild ...
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Northern Patrol: An Australian Saga
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Travellers who venture into the northern and eastern parts of Western Australia enter a world that is still very much a frontier. The landscapes are spectacular by unforgiving; ...
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Outback Trail h/c-S
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Pioneers of the Kimberley: The Maggie Lilly Story
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'Pioneers of the Kimberley' is the story of five generations of outback women and men. It is the moving tale of Maggie Lilly and many other pioneers who ...
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Suicides and Settlers: Their Place in 19th Century Western Australian Social History
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This book is a social history of 19th Century Western Australia told through the 315 suicides recorded here from the towns of the Swan settlement, Fremantle, Perth and Guildford. They also reach from the Kimberley to Esperance and the distant deserts ...
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The Brand on his Coat: Biographies of Some Western Australian Convicts
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'The Brand on his Coat' relates the histories of a few of the nine and a half thousand convicts who were transported to Western Australia during 1850 to 1868.
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The Cyclopedia of Western Australia
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These unique volumes contain a concise history of early Western Australia together with biographical data on over 950 pioneers and their families - together with photographs. An essential reference work ...
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The Law Provides
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After WWI, Ed. Morrow became a mounted policeman. His patrols through the North West, Kimberleys and Murchison chasing cattle spearers, killer & tracking lost men, gave him a view of ...
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The Outback Trail
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The author (Gus Luck), arrived in Western Australia at a propitious time in its history - the start of the Western Uatralian gold rush. Although his early experiences were unrelated ...
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The Rebel of Glenmalure: A History of Michael Dwyer
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This book will be of absorbing interest to those who follow Irish family and Catholic Church history. Dr Charles Dickson, the author of the book 'The life of ...
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Thomas Edwards of Beverley: Immigrant, Policeman, Settler
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When Thomas Edwards came from England to Western Australia in 1857 with his young wife, Ann Maria Griffith and their first son, John, he was prepared to take ...
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Thomas Edwards of Beverley: Immigrant, Policeman, Settler
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When Thomas Edwards came from England to Western Australia in 1857 with his young wife, Ann Maria Griffith and their first son, John, he was prepared to take ...
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Tom and Jack: A Frontier Story
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A veteran drover and cattleman, Tom Kilfoyle partnered his kinsmen the Duracks in exploring and overlanding to the Kimberleys. His son Jack was an enterprising and mischievous man, the defendant ...
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Walker in the Wilderness: The Life of R.J. Anketell
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We built no heroes, but we left no bones' - this remark, said by a colleague, sums up the meticulous planning and execution of the expeditions led by Richard John ...
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Western Pioneers: The Battle Well Fought
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The reminiscences of a pioneer settler in Western Australia. Early descriptions of Perth, Geraldton, natives, South-West, people, businesses etc.
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William Ford and Coolgardie
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Biography of the discoverer of Coolgardie giving new information.
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Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne
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Biographies and history of aboriginals of the Gascoyne with many photographs and drawings.
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