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Historical resources for Western Australian History
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Pamela Statham Drew has compiled the following list of Books and Articles relating to the History of Western Australia.
If you know of any books or articles that could be added to the list please contact Pamela at nickdrew@bigpond.com
Maritime and Whaling
Author | Book Title | Published By |
|---|---|---|
Australian Maritime Association | Australian Shipping | 1989 |
Appleyard, Professor Reg | Port Plans: Stirling to O'Connor | Fremantle Studies Volume 7 |
Blainey, G. | The Tyranny of Distance | Sun Books 1966 |
Broeze, Frank | An Island Nation | Allen & Unwin 1998 |
Broeze, Frank | Mr. Brooks and the Australian Trade | MUP 1993 |
Broeze, Frank | WA until 1869 - A Maritime Perspective | |
Colwell, Max | Whaling Around Australia | Rigby 1969 |
Colwell, Max | Ships and Seafarers in Australian Waters | Lansdown Press 1973 |
Dickson, R. | To King George III Sound for Whales | |
Dickson, R. | They Kept this State Afloat: Shipbuilders of WA | |
Douglas, L. et al | Maritime Albany remembered | |
Drake Brockman, H. | Voyage to Disaster | |
Henderson, Graeme | Redemption of a Slave Ship; The James Mathews | WA Museum 2009 |
Henderson, Graeme | Unfinished Voyages | Vols. I, 2 & 3 |
Heppingstone, I. | Bay Whaling in Western Australia | JRWAHS Early Days Vol.6, Part 5, 1966 |
Heppingstone, I. | Whaling in Cockburn Sound | JRWAHS Early Days Vol. 7 Part V 1973 |
Kerr, M & C. | Australia's Early Whalemen | Rigby 1980 |
Marchant, L. | An Island Unto Itself | Hesperian 1998 |
Marchant, L. | France Australe | |
Murray, K | First there came Ships | |
Pease, W | The Ghosts of Hamlin Bay | |
Playford, Phillip | Carpet of Silver | |
Playford, Phillip | A Voyage of Discovery to Terra Australia | |
Rathe, G | The Wreck of the Barque Stefano - NW Cape 1875 | |
Staples, Charles | Charles 'Maritime Trade in the Indian Ocean 1820- 1845' | University Studies in History, UWA, Vol.IV, No.4, 1966 |
Statham, P. & Erickson, R. | A Life on the Ocean Wave; The Journals of Captain George Bayly | MUP 1998 |
Wace, N. & Lovett, B. | Yankee Maritime Activities and the Early History of Australia | ANU Press |
Wedge, J. et al | Mathew Flinders & his Scientific Gentlemen |
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