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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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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
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Northmost Australia (3 Volumes)
Original price was: AU$220.00.AU$176.00Current price is: AU$176.00. Read MoreAdd to cartR. Logan Jack
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1998.Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, by Robert Logan Jack, Queensland Government Geologist. Facsimile Edition with maps in pocket in a third volume.
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Western Australian Ethnographic Papers
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Dugald Campbell; Peter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.“W. D. Campbell, an English geologist working in New Zealand and Australia undertook pioneering ethnographic work in the Eastern Goldfields, North West and Murchison. This collection is of rare and difficult to obtain papers that are little known to those interested in such material. The items on churingas and phallic objects are sure to ‘raise’ an interest in those so oriented.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Wilgie Mia: Cave of Red Ochre and Raddled Ranters
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“A history of the discovery of the cave, early mining, and the industry that grew around it. Also an examination of the Wadgela myths of the sacred cave, which are less believable than those of the Aboriginal dreamtime. Wishful thinking guides government policy resulting in closure and restriction as the home for a red elephant.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
AU$135.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.Published in Swedish in 1918 as ‘Bland Stenaldersmanniskor i Queensland’s Vildmarker’, and now available for the first time in English translated by S. M. Fryer and edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritche. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg’s North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. 31 plates. 226 captioned figures and 2 maps, showing rarely seen photographs of North Queensland Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Candomble
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJose Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes o Cruzeiro, 1957.Photobook on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble, providing an intimate visual record of ritual and ceremony.
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Les Passagers
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristophe Bourguedieu
Cherbourg-Octeville: Point du Jour, 2007.Photobook by French photographer Christophe Bourguedieu taken in Perth and regional Western Australia between 2004 and 2006.
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Portrait of a Revolution
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBohdan Warchomij
: backpackbook, 2006.Photobook of the 2004 political protests in Ukraine. With an introduction by Australian photojournalist, David Dare Parker. This copy inscribed by the photographer.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page.
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Iranian Living Room
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Bossan
Treviso: Fabrica, 2013.Photobook showing the intimate world of private living rooms in Iranian homes. “The living room is a place where you can feel free, a space where you are not subjected to perennial observation or the control of others and are beyond judgement: a place where you are free to be yourself and not obliged to act out a role imposed on you by other people and society.” (from preface). Photographs by Mohammad Mahdi Amya, Majid Farahani, Saina Golzar, Sanaz Hajikhani, Hamed Ilkhan, Ali Kaveh, Mashid Mahboubifar, Mehdi Moradpour, Sahar Pishsaraeian, Negar Sadehvandi, Hashem Shakeri, Sina Shiri, Morteza Soorani, Nazanin Tabatabaei Yazdi, and Ali Tajik. Edited by Enrico Bossan.