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Photographs from the Frontier: Kimberley, 1910-1911
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017.Taken by the first Swedish scientific expedition to Australia from prints held by the National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden. Organised and arranged by Kim Akerman.
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Gold Fields Maps of the Early 1900s
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWA Mines Department
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.A reprint of the rare booklets of WA goldfields maps, ‘The State of Western Australia Shewing Goldfields & Mining Centres published by the Department of Mines, W.A.’, supplied to the early prospectors. Essential for goldfields historians and modern prospectors.
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Around the Goldfields: A Study of Possibilities and Dreams
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2019.An Overview of the Goldfields During the Great Depression.
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Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Pamphlets Dealing with Western Australia Issued Since its Discovery in 1616
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis G. Steere
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.“This important and interesting bibliography, compiled by the then Parliamentary Librarian, contains many references no longer easily accessible through the library catalogues due to the iniquitous policy of not indexing journal articles. An essential reference for bibliophiles, librarians and historians.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Woodlines of Western Australia: A Comprehensive History of the Goldfields Woodlines
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Bianchi
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“Without a source of cheap energy to fuel steam boilers and for ore treatment, only the Western Australian mines with rich ore would have been productive. Firewood companies established privately owned train lines up to 120 miles out from major centres such as Kalgoorlie to bring in firewood. Although the Kurrawang and Lakewood woodlines are the main feature of this book; other woodlines included Lakeside south of Boulder, Kurramia/Kanowna, Cue, Laverton, Gwalia and Westonia. Firewood cutters, carters and loaders from war torn Europe, came to Australia seeking a better life; they lived in hessian walled basic camps with earthen floors and a tin roof. The book features 22 first-hand accounts of the hardships faced by woodliners working, living and growing up on the woodlines. Many a wife and family joining the husband after a few years were shocked at the conditions; suffering flies, heat, cold, loneliness, maggots in meat and poor quality drinking water. Between 1900 and 1964 a total of 21.6 million tons of firewood had been cut; during 1912-16 average production was 650,000 tons per year. By the time the firewood companies ceased operations they had clear-felled a staggering 3.04 million hectares of goldfields woodlands; almost half the area of Tasmania. Other woodline topics discussed include: racism, riots, internment, exploitation and bribery, shanties, sports days, strikes and deaths and accidents.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Western Australian Explorations of John Septimus Roe, 1829-1849
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Hercock
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2014.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “The landscapes and waters, the aboriginal people and their place names, as well as the plants and animals of south-western Australia, were all noted by John Septimus Roe. Naval officer, hydrogrpaher, explorer, founding Surveyor General, settler and father, Roe helped make Western Australia what it is today, while leaving a record of what it was at first contact by European settlers. Roe’s expedition reports, field notes and maps have been annotated, summaries and indexed in The Western Australian Explorations of John Septimus Rose 1829-1849. The reports are complemented by expert analyses of native plant species, native animal species, and navigation and surveying. This volume in the Western Australian Exploration series is a companion to Western Australian Exploration Volume 1 1826-1835 and Western Australian Exploration 1836-1845.” (from jacket)
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Western Australian Exploration Volume One, December 1826 – December 1835
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoanne Shoobert
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia: The Letters, Reports & Journals of Exploration and Discovery in Australia. “Western Australian Exploration Volume One, 1826-1835 is the annotated record of all the known extant documents of Western Australian land exploration for the period. This seminal collection of 130 items, many of which have never before been publicly accessible, is a unique view of Western Australia as it was found by the explorers. It is a fundamental source of importance to all Australians who have an interest in our origins.” (from jacket)
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Western Australian Exploration, 1836-1845
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Hercock; Sheryl Milentis; Phil Bianchi
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia: The Letters, Reports & Journals of Exploration and Discovery in Australia. “During the years 1836-1845, the settlements of Albany, Perth, Fremantle and York expanded as immigrants arrived in search of new pastures and other resources. The search for resources, the development of roads between remote settlements, and scientific enquiry provided the impetus for further exploration and discovery in Western Australia in that period. One hundred reports of expeditions of exploration in colonial Western Australia have been annotated, summarised and indexed in Western Australian Exploration 1936-1845. The reports are complemented by expert analyses of native plant species, native animal species and the relations between Aboriginal people and the explorers. This volume in the Western Australian Exploration Diaries series is the companion to Western Australian Exploration Volume 1 1826-1835 and Evidences of an Inland Sea.” (from jacket)
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The Australind Letters of Marshall Waller Clifton, Chief Commissioner for the Western Australian Company
AU$95.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. R. Cameron; P. A. Barnes; Marshall Waller Clifton
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The Australind Journals of Marshall Waller Clifton, 1840-1861
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis Barnes; J. M. R. Cameron; H. A. Willis; Marshall Waller Clifton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2010.“Marshall Waller Clifton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, and former Secretary of the Royal Navy’s Victualling Board, was Chief Commissioner for the small agricultural colony of Australind. This settlement, on Leschenault Inlet on Australia’s south-western coast, was formed in 1840 by a group of systematic coloniser supporters of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. To keep them informed of his activities, Clifton maintained a detailed daily account that he commenced on 1 December 1840, the day he left England. Unlike its sister colonies in South Australia and New Zealand, the Wakefield-inspired venture in Western Australia did not succeed. Australind failed within three years. Clifton, although freed from having to report to London-based shareholders, maintained his practice of daily journal writing and did so until six days before his death in 1861. The result is a vivid and detailed portrait of life in a small and remote agricultural settlement on the edge of the British Empire. Clifton is an intelligent and insightful, if somewhat haughty, observer of people, events and places. His observations and reflections will appeal to a wide audience because he was heavily involved in colonial life through the activities of his large family and as local magistrate, Legislative Councillor and leading land-holder and horticulturalist. His garden at Australind was much admired, he was a pioneer of Western Australia’s wine industry, one of the first to export local produce through the port of Bunbury, and a major employer of convict labour. Clifton’s Australind Journals are published here for the first time, annotated and comprehensively indexed to make them more accessible and useful for modern readers.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Exploration Eastwards, 1860 – 1869
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge; Kim Epton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “Contains some 30 expeditions including Lefroy and CC Hunt with appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott. Biographical notes on all known expedition members. Resolves the problems of the ‘convicts gold’ and Hunt’s unknown convict helpers.” (publisher’s blurb)
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To the Golden Land: Exploration to the Eastwards, 1869 – 1896
AU$160.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “An important contribution to the history of WA covering all that periods 65 expeditions, including many that were previously unknown. Includes for the first time all the colour plates of Forrest in the 1870s. More than 150 illustrations and maps.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891 – 1892
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Lindsay
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “With appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott, reported by the expedition. Also the full Anthropology report by Richard Helms which has not been available for over a century, which contains 6 colour plates and many b&w photos. Biographies of all the men.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited by Peter J. Bridge, Calliope Bridge, and Celene Bridge.
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Samuel Grau Hubbe and the South Australia to Western Australia Stock Route Expedition, 1895 – 1896
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Grau Hubbe
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “Contains the official and private journals of Hubbe and John Mahar. Biographical notes on the men of the expedition.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited and with an introduction by Andrew Guy Peake.
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A Sexual History of the Internet
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMindy Seu
: Dark Forest Collective, 2025.The artist book to the participatory lecture performance A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. “This is a polyvocal telling of sexual technologies in five chapters. It’s less an abridged history and moreso a collection of experiences, anecdotes, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of many of our digital tools.” (from introduction). An experiment in the understanding of the internet, sex, and sexual technologies.
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Photographs: Together & Alone
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKarlheinz Weinberger
: The Song Cave, 2020.“..containing over 200 never-before-published vintage photographic prints that were re-discovered in 2017. Edited by Ben Estes, this unique collection pairs images of Weinberger’s most famous subjects, the “Halbstarke,” a loosely organized group of Swiss “rebels” in the late 1950s and early 1960s, carousing at local carnivals and on a camping trip, with a much more private side of Weinberge’s oeuvre: solo portraits of men from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s whom he invited into his makeshift studio in the rooms of the apartment he shared with his mother. The men in these portraits–construction workers, street vendors, bicycle messengers, outsiders–span a spectrum of fully clothed, arms-crossed poses to campy and flirtatious, fully nude and reclined, while others mimic art historical postures. All of these images, though, reveal a palpable sense of tenderness between photographer and subject, revealing an expansive and uncritical take on the male form in an era when being photographed wasn’t such a casual, ubiquitous record as it is today. Though not a professional photographer–he worked as a warehouse stock manager–Weinberger captured his subjects with a distinctly gay male gaze, both carnal and artistic, and this collection is certain to earn his work a larger following and appreciation.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Hands Off! An Easy Way to Understand E-D-A Consciousness
Read MoreBob Jones
Sydney: Bay Books, 1983.“A unique system of self defence against assault for the women of today” by Australian martial artist and bodyguard to the stars Bob Jones. The techniques, which Jones calls Environmental Defence Awareness, are based around fighting off would-be rapists. Featuring Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac sparring with Jones on the cover, and other cameos by Christine McVie, Agneta and Frida from ABBA, and Linda Ronstadt.
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Along the Fault Line: Late Slippages and Abrasions
Read MoreJames Gleeson
Sydney: The Northwood Press, 2005.Limited to 350 copies, the first 100 signed by Gleeson, this being an unsigned copy.
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Every Second Child
Read MoreArchie Kalokerinos
Melbourne and Sydney: Thomas Nelson, 1974.Archie Kalokerinos’ account of treating Aboriginal children with large doses of vitamin C. Kalokerinos (1927-2012) was a prominent anti-vaccination campaigner and was highly criticised by the medical community for his vitamin C work outlined in this book.
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Flora of South-Eastern Queensland (3 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. D. Stanley; E. M. Ross
Brisbane: Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 1983-1989.Illustrations by M. A. Saul and G. Rankin.