Books on Broome
(source: National Library of Australia)
Author:
Hamaguchi, Pearl, 1940-
Title: Pearl Hamaguchi interviewed
by Colin Davis in the Broome oral history project [sound recording].
Publisher: 2006.
Description: 1
sound file (ca. 71 min.)
Series: Broome oral history
Notes: Recorded during May 2006 at Broome, W.A.
Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History collection;
Index/Finding Aid Note: Summary not yet available.
Subjects: Hamaguchi, Pearl, 1940- --Interviews.
Broome
(W.A.)--History.
Other Authors: Davis, Colin J.
Access Conditions: Access open for research, personal copies
and public use.
Bib ID: 3696340
Author:
Hemphill, Rosemary.
Title: The master pearler's daughter
Publisher: Sydney : Pan, 2005.
Description:
270 p. ; ill. : 20 cm.
ISBN: 0330422030 :
Notes: Previously published: Pan Macmillan, 2004.
"Memories
of my Broome childhood"--Cover.
Subjects: Hemphill,
Rosemary--Childhood and youth.
Broome (W.A.)--Social
life and customs.
Bib ID: 3423668
Author:
Sickert, Susan, 1955-
Title: Beyond the lattice : Broome's
early years
Publisher: Fremantle, W.A.
: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003.
Description: 199
p. : ill. (some col.), facsims, maps, ports. ; 20 x 21 cm.
ISBN: 1863683925 :
Notes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 193-195.
Subjects: Aboriginal
Australians--Western Australia--Broome--History.
Minorities--Western
Australia--Broome--History.
Broome (W.A.)--History.
Bib ID: 925800
Author: Australia.
Geoscience Australia. National Mapping Division.
Title:
Broome, Western Australia [cartographic material] :[Australia]
Edition: Ed. 2.
Scale: Scale 1:250,000 ; universal
transverse Mercator proj. on GRS80 ellipsoid (E 12130'--E 12300'/S 1700'
--S 1800')
Publisher: Belconnen, A.C.T. : The Division,
c2003.
Description: 1 map : col. ; 47 x 68 cm., on sheet
50 x 90 cm.
Series: Australia 1:250,000 topographic survey
; SE51-06
Notes: "MAP 02/045".
Relief shown by contours, form lines and spot heights.
Topographic information checked from multiple sources including 2001
SPOT satellite imagery.
Subjects: Broome Region (W.A.)--Maps,
Topographic.
Broome Region (W.A.)--2001
Terms
of Use: Commonwealth of Australia 2003
Bib ID: 2477686
Author: Knapinski, Ben.
Title:
Kimberley, Western Australia's Broome and beyond
Publisher: [Bunbury, W.A.] : Envisage Pub., 2003.
Description: [48] p. : chiefly col. ill., maps, ports. ; 21 x 30
cm.
ISBN: 0975061453 :
Notes: Cover title.
Subjects: Broome (W.A.)--Pictorial works.
Kimberley
(W.A.)--Pictorial works.
Other Authors: Sotiroski, Yani.
Also Titled: Broome and beyond
Bib ID: 3047986
Title: Life along land's edge : wildlife
on the shores of Roebuck Bay, Broome / by Danny I. Rogers ... [et
al.].
Publisher: Kensington, W.A. : Dept.
of Conservation and Land Management, c2003.
Description:
v, 162 p. : col. ill., maps, ports. ; 22 x 28 cm.
ISBN:
0730755401
Notes: Co-author: Grant B. Pearson
Includes index.
Subjects: Birds--Western Australia--Broome.
Invertebrates--Western Australia--Broome.
Animals--Western
Australia--Broome.
Crustacea--Western Australia--Broome.
Roebuck Bay (W.A.)
Topics: Wildlife.
Invertebrates.
Crustacea.
Waterfowl.
Birds.
Roebuck bay (W.A.)
Western Australia.
Other Authors: Western Australia. Dept. of Conservation and
Land Management.
Bib ID: 3120962
Author:
Ainslie, Trish.
Title: Broome : saltwater cowboys : the
people & the place
Publisher:
Fremantle, W.A. : Nomad Books, c2002.
Description: 71
p. : ill., 1 map, ports. ; 15 cm.
ISBN: 0646418793
Notes: Cover title.
Subjects: Broome (W.A.)--Pictorial
works.
Broome (W.A.)--History.
Other Authors:
Garwood, Roger.
Also Titled: Saltwater cowboys
Bib ID: 2410999
Author: Kuypers,
Fernande.
Title: Broome : through the lens of master
photographer Fernande Kuypers / edited by Anne Bloemen and Bonita
Mason.
Publisher: Broome, W.A. : Broome
Historical Society, 2002.
Description: 112 p. : ill.
; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0957993110 (pbk.)
Notes: Bibliography:
p. 112.
Subjects: Broome (W.A.)--Pictorial works.
Other Authors: Bloemen, Anne.
Mason, Bonita.
Broome Historical Society.
Bib ID: 680344
Author: Selzer, Anita, 1956-
Title: Governors' wives in colonial Australia / Anita Selzer.
Publisher: Canberra : National Library of Australia
: c2002.
Description: viii., 174 p. : ill., ports. :
25 cm.
ISBN: 0642107351 (pbk.) :
Summary:
"The lives of five vice-regal women who accompanied their husbands
to the Australian colonies during the nineteenth century are examined
in Governors' wives in colonial Australia: Eliza Darling, New
South Wales, 1825-1831; Jane Franklin, Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1843;
Mary Anne Broome, Western Australia, 1883-1889; Elizabeth Loch, Victoria,
1884-1889; Audrey Tennyson, South Australia, 1899-1903."--p.
2.
Notes: Includes Index.
Biographical information
included.
Bibliography: p. 162-167.
Subjects:
Franklin, Jane, Lady, 1791-1875.
Loch, Elizabeth, Lady,
d. 1938.
Tennyson, Audrey, Lady, 1854-1916.
Broome, Mary Anne, Lady, 1831-1911.
Darling, Eliza, Lady,
1798-1868.
Governors' spouses--Australia--History--19th
century.
Governors' spouses--Australia--Biography.
Women--Australia--History--19th century.
Other
Authors: National Library of Australia.
Bib ID: 2205899
Author: Dann, Lucy Wiidagoo, 1960-
Title: Interview with Lucy Dann, Aboriginal educational worker
[sound recording] / interviewer, Keiko Tamura.
Publisher: 2002.
Description: 4 sound files (157
min.)
Summary: Lucy Dann is an Aboriginal education worker
in Broome, W.A. She speaks about her Aboriginal upbringing, but how
in her adulthood she comes to the realisation that her real father
is a Japanese man who worked on pearl riggers (ie boats) in Broome.
Dann talks about how in 2000 she set out to meet her Japanese father
for the first time in Japan and her multi-ethnic cultural identity.
Notes: Recorded on Sept. 30, 2002; Oct. 1, 2002 at the National
Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T.
User access copy
made.
Index/Finding Aid Note: Uncorrected transcript
(typescript, 90 leaves)
Subjects: Dann, Lucy Wiidagoo,
1960- --Interviews.
Teachers--Western Australia--Interviews.
Ethnicity--Western Australia--Broome
Aboriginal
Australians--Ethnic identity.
Japanese Australians--Ethnic
identity.
Occupation: Teachers.
Other Authors:
Tamura, Keiko, 1955-
Access Conditions: Written permission
required for research, personal copies and public use during the
lifetime of the interviewee.
Bib ID: 2084277
Author: Bailey, John, 1944 Dec. 15-
Title: The white divers of Broome : the true story of a fatal
experiment
Publisher: Sydney : Pan Macmillan
Australia, 2002, c2001.
Description: xv, 301 p., [16]
p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 0330363387
(pbk.) :
0330363387 (pbk.)
Notes: Previously
published: Pan Macmillan, 2001.
Bibliography: p. 295-301.
Subjects: Pearl industry and trade--Western Australia--Broome.
Pearl divers--Western Australia--Broome.
Western
Australia--History--1901-1914.
Bib ID: 1787657
Author: Coombs, Anne, 1956-
Title:
Broometime
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Sydney : Sceptre, 2001.
Description: ix, 294
p. : ill., map, ports ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0733614493
Subjects: Broome (W.A.)--Biography.
Broome (W.A.)--Description
and travel.
Other Authors: Varga, Susan.
Bib ID: 1015077
Author: Ellis, Isabelle.
Title: Finding Broome's dinosaurs
Publisher: Cable Beach W.A. : OzEcologic, 2001.
Description: 13 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 0646417665
(pbk.)
Series: An ozEcologic book
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references: p. 13.
Subjects:
Dinosaurs--Western Australia--Broome.
Bib ID: 1083611
Author: Shaw, Carol, 1961-
Title:
The history of Broome's street names
Publisher: Broome, W. A. : Carol Shaw, 2001.
Description:
92 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm.
ISBN: 0646406604 :
Notes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p.90-91.
Subjects: Street names--Western Australia--Broome--History.
Names, Geographical--Western Australia--Broome--History.
Bib ID: 966708
Author: Burton,
Val, 1933-
Title: General history of Broome
Publisher: Broome, W.A. : Broome Historical Society, c2000.
Description: vi, 61 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 30 cm.
ISBN: 0957993102
Subjects: Broome (W.A. : Shire)--History.
Broome (W.A.)--History.
Other Authors: Broome Historical
Society.
Bib ID: 3042016
Title:
Why Broome? / edited by Noel Trevor.
Publisher:
Cable Beach, W.A. : Noel Trevor & Associates, 2000.
Description: vii, 321 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
0646386492 :
Subjects: Broome (W.A.)--Biography.
Broome (W.A.)--History.
Other Authors: Trevor,
Noel, 1949-
Bib ID: 433296
Title:
And why Broome? / edited by Noel Trevor.
Publisher: Cable Beach, W.A. : Noel Trevor & Associates,
2002.
Description: xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 0957961014 :
Notes: Includes index.
Sequel to "Why Broome?"
Subjects: Broome (W.A.)--Biography.
Broome (W.A.)--History.
Other Authors: Trevor,
Noel, 1949-
Bib ID: 1975847
Author:
Chapple, Thomas Dampier.
Title: Broome : the exciting
years
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher:
[Claremont, W.A.] : T. Chapple, 1998.
Description: 66,
[1] leaves, (1 folded) : ill., 1 map, ports. ; 30 cm.
Notes: Running title: Broome - the exciting years 1912-1930.
Includes directory.
Subjects: Chapple, Thomas Dampier.
Broome (W.A.)--Biography.
Broome (W.A.)--History.
Also Titled: Broome - the exciting years 1912-1930.
Bib ID: 2053415
Novels
Author: Wills, Juliet.
Title: The diamond Dakota mystery
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2006.
Description: xviii, 222 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.
; 21 cm.
ISBN: 174114745X :
Notes: "An
extraordinary story of daring and luck, life and death, and fortunes
found and lost"--Cover.
Bibliography: p. 215-219.
Subjects: Palmer, Jack.
Larceny--Western Australia--Carnot
Bay.
Diamonds--Western Australia--Carnot Bay.
World War, 1939-1945--Western Australia--Broome--Aerial operations,
Japanese.
Other Authors: Van Velzen, Marianne.
Bib ID: 3643080
Author: Campbell,
Bruce D.
Title: A scattering of the pearls : a new novel
set in Broome
Publisher: Mandurah, W.A.
: Interesting Publications, c2006.
Description: 288 p.
; 21 cm.
ISBN: 1876760923
Notes: Cover title.
Subjects: Broome (W.A.)--Fiction.
Bib ID: 3725585
Author: Disher, Garry, 1949-
Title: The divine wind / Garry Disher.
Publisher: Sydney : Hodder, 2002, c1998.
Description:
151 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 0733615902 (pbk.)
Summary:
In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War
11, a young man Hart, falls in love with the daughter of a Japanese
diver, and they not only have to survive the war, but prejudice and
hate as well.
Notes: For young adults.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945--Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile
fiction.
Pearl industry and trade--Western Australia--Broome--Juvenile
fiction.
Bib ID: 2092345
Author:
Lazaroo, Simone, 1961-
Title: The Australian fiance
: a novel about desire, flight and the aftermath of war
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : Picador, 2000.
Description:
211 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0330362003 :
0330362003
:
0330362003
Subjects: Eurasians--Fiction.
Women refugees--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Singapore--Fiction.
Broome (W.A.)--Fiction.
Genre: Love stories.
Bib ID: 383831
