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Thompson, John: Probation in Paradise - The story of convict probationers on Tasman's and Forestier's peninsulas, Van Diemen's Land, 1841-1857
Book Number: 52924
John Thompson, Tasmania, 2007. )blong 4to. softcover. 272pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good, minor wear to cover corners.
Keywords: tasmania australia history Van Diemen's Land
Price: $25.00 |
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Cyril Pearl: Wild Men Of Sydney - A Turbulent Era in Australian Social and Political Life.
Book Number: 52939
Allen, London 1958 8vo. hardcover. red boards, illustrated with b&w photos and line drawings. very good. / Fair chipped d/w.
Keywords: Australia, John Norton, William Willis, Paddy Crick, scandle,
Price: $15.00 |
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Bowden, Tim: Penelope Bungles to Broome
Book Number: 52946
St Leonards, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 2001 8vo softcover 304pp colour plates very good, owner's inscription on contents page.
Keywords: Eyre Edward John 1815 1901 Bowden Tim travel Broome Journeys Australia Discovery exploration Australia Southern
Price: $18.00 |
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Leighton, Dena: The Spanish Dreamer A Biography of Jose Paronella
Book Number: 52950
Rosemont Press, Wollongong, 1997. 4to. softcover. 112pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Keywords: Jose Paronella biography australian queensland cane fields spanish imigrant
Price: $15.00 |
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Wilding, Michael: The Paraguayan Experiment - New Australian Movement - a documentary novel.
Book Number: 53029
Penguin Books Ltd April 25, 1985 8vo softcover 224pp near fine. Drawing on contemporary documents, Foreign Office reports and the memoirs of pioneers and supporters like Mary Gilmore and Roase de Boheme, Michael Wilding has not only re-created a memorable account of the New Australia movement, Australia's first revolutionary experiement, but has wrought a deft and evocative novel.
Keywords: Modern fiction The Paraguayan Experiment Wilding Michael
Price: $12.00 |
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Porter, Hal: Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography
Book Number: 53056
Faber & Faber July 1986 8vo softcover 255pp very good.
Keywords: English Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony An Australian Autobiography Porter Hal
Price: $12.00 |
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Clune, Frank: The Kelly Hunters - The Authentic Impartial History of the Life and Times of Edward Kelly, the Ironclad OUtlaw.
Book Number: 53065
Angus and Robertson 1954 - First Edition 8vo. Green cloth hardcover no d/w. 362pp. Very good. Maps on end pages. Illustrated with line drawings by R. Malcolm Warner. A chronological account of Ned Kelly.
Keywords: Ned Kelly, Bushranger
Price: $30.00 |
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Idriess, Ion: Lightning Ridge - The Land of Opals
Book Number: 53064
Angus and Roberston reprinted 1953 8vo. Fawn cloth hardcover in pictorial d/w, d/w is un-faded, chipped at top of spine and a repair at top, and tear at bottom fronts, and small tear to back flap fold. Pages toned. 224pp. Frontis and 12 plates. In Lightning Ridge Idriess tells of his beginnings of this childhood in Lismore, and Tamworth and Broken Hill, of his apprenticeship in bushcraft and of the growing love for the Australian outback, the jobs he had and how his wanderings brought him to to the the opal mines at Lightning Ridge.
Keywords: ion idriess australian mining queensland
Price: $30.00 |
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Clune, Frank: Wild Colonial Boys
Book Number: 53066
Sydney Angus & Robertson 1955 reprint. 8vo hardcover 657pp index, b/w illus by Ralph Warner. very good. Maps on End pages. A complete and authentic picture of the background and foreground to the bushranging outbreaks of the 1860's, in chronological order.
Keywords: Kelly Ned 1855 1880 Bushrangers Biography Wild colonial boys Clune Frank
Price: $30.00 |
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King, Norma: Daughters of Midas - Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields
Book Number: 53083
Hesperian Press and Business and Professional Women's Club of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Inc. 8vo. Softcover. 182pp. Very good. Daughters of Midas, is the first factual book to focus on goldfields' women of the 1888-1914 era. From the Arrival of the first woman on the goldfields, to pioneer nurses, the first bride, miner's wives, rich mens wives, the wife of an American Presdent-to-be, early feminists, women on pastoral properties, barmaids, entertainers, the Japanese and French prostitutes and those of other nationalities who established the well known and notoroius brothels in Hay Street, Kalgoorlie.
Keywords: Goldfields, Gold Mining, Women in Business
Price: $14.00 |
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