The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay: The 1942 Bombing of Broome, and its Tragic Aftermath by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
The Japanese attack on Broome is the second most deadly air raid on Australia soil in our history and yet it's almost entirely overlooked. On 3 March 1942, nine Japanese Zero planes strafed the small town planning to destroy the aerodrome and American planes. With no notice, the townsfolk could only put ...Show more
The Last Pearling Lugger by Mark Dodd
$36.99 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in 1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure, after working his way across northern Australia. There he fell in with the crew of the fabled DMcD, one of the last of the old wooden pearling luggers that still worked the Kimberley coast diving for pearl shell. He came aboard ...Show more
Broome's One Day War
$7.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
The story of the Japanese Raid on Broome 3rd March 1942
Charlie's Swim by Edith Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children
Age range 9 to 12During WWII after the Japanese invasion of Java, more than 1000 refugees from the Dutch East Indies, many in flying boats, passed through Broome, which was a major refuelling point and a significant Allied military base. On 3 March 1942 Broome was attacked by Japanese fighter planes, ki ...Show more
The Divine Wind by Garry Disher
$18.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
Alice, Hartley, Mitsy and Jamie are kids growing up in Broome before the Second World War. Their lives, although very different, are bound by friendship. Hartley and Alice Penrose are the children of an uneducated pearling master and a cultivated, disgruntled mother. Mitsy Sennosuke is Japanese, the dau ...Show more
Wallking Jetty to Jetty Stories of Broome by Nyamba Buru Yawuru Ltd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
Picture the bustle of the Roebuck Bay foreshore, where a ?forest? of luggers dominated the landscape, children played off the jetties and amongst the mangroves, and Asian, Aboriginal and European workers mingled in the work sheds and divers? quarters.Set in the heart of Yawuru country, Walking Jetty to ...Show more
The White Divers of Broome: The True Story of a Fatal Experiment by John Bailey
$25.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
The True Story of a Fatal Experiment1912 Broome was as much 'Asian' as 'Australian'. The town thrived on the hugely profitable, but extremely dangerous, pearl shell industry. It was a frontier town where racial tensions simmered. This is a gripping narrative that echoes with many of the same fears and h ...Show more
The Pearler's Wife by Roxane Dhand
$22.99 AUD
Category: Broome Fiction
From the high seas to the deep seabed, from the latticed verandahs of Buccaneer Bay to the gambling dens in Asia Place, The Pearler's Wife is a stunning debut, inspired by a small yet pivotal moment in Australian history. A distant land. A dangerous husband. A forbidden love. It is 1912, and Maisie Port ...Show more
A Pearling Masters Journey - SIGNED by J. E. deB. Norman and G. V. Norman
$110.00 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
Tears of the Moon by Di Morrissey
$21.00 AUD
Category: Broome History
Tears of the Moon is the spellbinding prequel to Kimberley Sun from Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon. Two inspiring journeys. Two unforgettable women. One amazing story.Broome, Australia, 1893: It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when yo ...Show more