Love Luck and Larceny by JOHN THOMPSON-GRAY
$29.95 AUD
Category: Broome History
Memoirs from Broome 1942.
The Tragic Pearl
$12.95 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
Lifted from the bed of the Indian Ocean outside La Grange Bay, North West Australia, one Saturday in August, 1905, the great pearl that figures in this story was pronounced by the few that saw it to be worth a king's ransom. Within forty-eight hours, however, it was stolen, and thereafter passed rapidly ...Show more
Kings In Grass Castles by Mary Durack
$19.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
" ... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions. The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profoun ...Show more
Pearling Days by John Brockman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
The pearling voyage of the 'Sarah' to the North West and Kimberley in 1889 and 1881, with an appendix on the death of W.H. Lowe during an expedition north east of the Gascoyne in late 1881. From John Brockman's 1912 manuscript. One of the few books on the earliest days of pearling in Western Australia. ...Show more
Broome 1910 Companion Publication to 'a Pearling Master's Journey' by John deB Norman
$85.00 AUD
Category: Broome History
The 24 photographs in the Trotman-Norman collection have an impeccable provenance, and are a photographic record of the days in August 1910 when WH Trotman, a Fremantle engineer, was the guest of Hugh Davis Norman for the three days in Broome whilst SS Charon was loading cargo at the Mangrove Point jett ...Show more