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Aboriginal Perth: Bibbulmun Biographies and Legends
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Daisy Bates is a well-known voice for the plight of Australian Aborigines, particularly those in Western Australia. She was a prolific writer, and beginning from these popular accounts of Aboriginal ...
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Australia and New Zealand
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An 1873 of tour of Australia by Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect.
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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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Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers
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When Europeans first arrived in the Kimberley, a turbulent era began for the Indigenous people. To survive, they aligned themselves with white men through unspoken and unequal contracts of ownership ...
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Body and Soul: An Aboriginal View of Medicine
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This extraordinary book describes the conceptualisation of the human body, soul, and health at the Kukatja people, who now live at Balgo, in the far north of Western Australia. It ...
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Cobb and Co. in the Golden West
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The Western Australian coaching companies covered immense distances in scarcely explored country. Among them was the Western Australia Cobb and Co. run by Nicholas and Kidman. This collection of reminiscences, reports, timetables, adverts, etc. is heavily illustrated, and is ...
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Conquest and Settlement: the 21st Regiment (Royal North British Fusiliers) in Western Australia 1833-1840
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This is not a military history in the usual sense. It is not dedicated to campaigns fought, won or lost. It is an attempt to chronicle the part played by ...
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Cyclopedia of Western Australia 1912-13
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Our Price: AU$59.50
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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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Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Dieman's Land 1830-33
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The Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Diemans Land was written by Lieut. Breton, R. N. It was published to give people who were considering settling in the Australian colonies a realistic and practical view of what the colonies were like ...
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Expeditions in Western Australia 1837-1839
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Our Price: AU$90.00
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Facsimile. This classic of WA exploration, details Grey's discoveries and is essential for historical studies. It contains extensive details of natural history, aboriginal life, culture, and language etc. Grey's party ...
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Handbook of Western Australia 1880
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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Gives insight into the history and background of the colony of Western Australia at the time.
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Handbook of Western Australia 1880 and 1881 Set
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Price if purchased separately AU$47.00
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Combining both the 1880 and 1881 issues of the Handbook of Western Australia on a single CD, they give an insight into the history and background of the colony of Western Australia at the time ...
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Handbook of Western Australia 1881 2nd ed
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Gives insight into the history and background of the colony of Western Australia at the time ...
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Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia
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The Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the region's history
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History of West Australia
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'History of West Australia: A Narrative of Her Past together with Biographies of her Leading Men' was compiled by W.B. Kimberly over a period of two years and published in 1897.
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Legal Executions in Western Australia
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Divided into three parts, part 1 gives the details chronologically, of the date of execution, the name given in legal documents, and where possible, the name of the victim and the circumstances of the crime ...
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My Fourth Tour in Western Australia
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Our Price: AU$95.00
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One of the most magnificent books on the WA goldfields and bush. Hundreds of photos and sketches of people and places.
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Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth Century Western Australia
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'Settlers, Servants and Slaves' documents the colonial era exploitation of both European and Aboriginal children by the settler elite of nineteenth century Western Australia. In a struggling colony desperately short of labour, early settlers relied on ...
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South Australia and Western Australia
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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From an 1873 of tour of Australia by Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect.
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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 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 Handbook of Western Australia 1912
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Further titled 'An Official publication for the information of commercial men, tourists and immigrants' this book was published by the Western Australian Government in 1914.
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The Handbook of Western Australia 1912 (original)
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Our Price: AU$130.00
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This book presents Western Australia as it was in 1912, and includes it's history as well. It book is a general, and wide ranging account of the states history. It includes the original colour map, WA wildflowers, many photographs ...
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The Military Establishment and Penal Settlement At King George Sound
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On the 9th of November 1826, the brig 'Amity' set sail from Sydney to establish a penal settlement at King George Sound, Western Australia, in what was then unclaimed territory.
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They Kept this State Afloat: Shipbuilders and Shipwrights 1829-1929
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The author starts off by stating that "the subjects of this book, are, I believe, some of unsung heroes that diligently day and day plied their trade without ...
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To Be Heirs Forever
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With her husband Will, six children, two servants, some livestock and tools, Eliza Shaw exchanged her comfortable English world of drawing-rooms and embroidery for the brushwood huts and back-breaking labour ...
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Tom and Jack: A Frontier Story
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Our Price: AU$27.95
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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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Travels in Western Australia
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May Vivienne - opera singer, widow, travel writer - embarked upon an epic journey of discovery throughout Western Australia in 1899-1900.
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Western Australia 1842
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Compiled in 1842 for the use of emigrants, this book covers many topics useful for new arrivals to the colony to know.
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Western Australia in 1891
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This book of Western Australia was published in 1891 by the government of the colony and contains a brief overview of the colony’s situation.
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Western Australia's Tempestuous History
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These volumes begin with the earliest recorded history of the arrival of white men on Western Australian shores. They were the survivors from shipwrecks who became unwilling emigrants. Seamen, mutineers, ...
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Western Australia: Its History and Progress
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Fascinating to read, overall, this little book provides a wonderful history of Western Australia as it was in 1895.
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Western Australian Tourist Guide and Accommodation Directory c1929
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List Price AU$23.50
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The 'Western Australian Tourist Guide' was published for distribution throughout Australia and overseas. It was the most comprehensive guide of its type. Issued in 1929, it gives a unique insight into the Western Australia of the era.
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