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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 year
s
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

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