Media: BOOK - paperback, 144 pages
Author: J. Price
Year: (1981) 2010
ISBN: 9780859052634
Other: photos, folded map
Publisher: Hesperian Press

Julius M. Price, special artist and correspondent for the "Illustrated London News", journeyed through Western Australiain 1895, writing of and sketching the scenes of bush life, and goldmining in the Eastern and Murchison goldfields.

Profusely illustrated with photo's and sketches of the mines and miners, camel teams and mail coaches, aboriginals, settlers and towns in Western Australia in 1895.

This is known to be one of the best reports on the early Western Australian goldfields, and as such this is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Contents:
Note
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Gravesend to King George's Sound
Chapter 2. King George's Sound and Albany
Chapter 3. From Albany to Perth
Chapter 4. The City to Perth
Chapter 5. Freemantle
Chapter 6. From Perth to Coolgardie
Chapter 7. Coolgardie
Chapter 8. The Hampton Plains
Chapter 9. Hannans
Chapter 10. A Ten Minutes' Chat with Herr Schmeisser at Kalgoorlie
Chapter 11. "White Feather"
Chapter 12. From "Hannahs" to the "Great Fingall"
Chapter 13. From the "Great Fingall" to Mount Margaret
Chapter 14. Mount Margaret
Chapter 15. Menzies
Chapter 16. From Menzies Back to Coolgardie, Southern Cross, and Guilford
Chapter 17. A Peep at Geraldton and the Murchison District
Appendix A: Conditions Under which Lands Within Agricultural Areas are Open for Selection
Appendix B: Australian Trees
Appendix C: Mining Rights
Appendix D: Typhoid Fever in Australia
Index