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Caught in time : talking Australian history / Bill Bunbury

Record no:

60514

Call no:

994.1 BUN

Author:

Bunbury, Bill

Publisher:

Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Arts Centre Press

Year:

2006

Description:

269 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Western Australia - History - Anecdotes;
Zuytdorp (Ship);
Strikes and lockouts - Western Australia - Fremantle - 1919;
Lumpers Strike, Fremantle, W.A., 1919;
Earthquakes - Western Australia - Meckering;

De Garis, Clement John;
Gribble, John Brown, 1847-1893;
Gribble, Ernest Richard Bulmer, 1869-1957;
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) - History;
Kendenup (W.A.) - History;
Australia - Emigration and immigration - History - 20th century;
Kojonup (W.A. : Shire) - History;
World War, 1939-1945 - Western Australia - Social aspects;
Western Australia - Race relations - History;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia;

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Isbn:

1921064846

Type:

Book

Abstract:

A collection of mostly Western Australian stories based on Bunbury's oral history radio features. It is a tapestry of snapshots across time from before European settlement through to the late twentieth century. Stories range from the fascinating account

of the 1711 wreck of the Dutch ship, Zuytdorp; an Australian soldier's remarkable escape and lone voyage across the Mediterranean in the 1940s; and the inspiring late twentieth century journey of a rural community to Reconciliation.

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Contents:

1. A lost ship, lost people : the Zuytdorp story -- 2. A tale of two priests : the Gribbles, father and son -- 3. Trouble on the wharves : Spanish flu and strife, 1919 -- 4. A vision splendid : the de Garis story, Kendenup -- 5. Strange here, strange

there : the migration experience -- 6. The shiver that went through us : memories of World War Two -- 7. All I saw were seabirds : a lone voyage across the Mediterranean, 1942 -- 8. Nowhere to run : the Meckering earthquake, 1968 -- 9. Christmas Island : only a bus stop, never a terminal -- 10. Kojonup, place of healing? : a reconciliation story.

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