Forty Fathoms Deep - Pearl Divers and Sea Rovers in Australian Seas by Ion Idriess
$35.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
Pearl divers & sea rovers in Australian seas. Mr. Idriess reveals to the reader the technique of pearling with him, the reader boards the lugger for the pearling grounds, makes the acquaintance of the skipper and crew, dons the diving dress and descends to the sea floor, sees the wonders of a new a ...Show more
About a Girl, About a Pearl by Kristin Weidenbach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
At a time when others only dreamed of growing pearls in Broome’s giant oysters, the pioneering Brown family mastered the secrets to coax the perfect pearls to life. With an Aussie can-do attitude they created Cygnet Bay pearl farm in the 1960s, the oldest Australian-owned and operated pearl farm and pro ...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
A Pearling Masters Journey - SIGNED by J. E. deB. Norman and G. V. Norman
$110.00 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
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
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
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