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Master Pearler’s Daughter, The : Memories of My Broome Childhood

Hemphill, Rosemary
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WEST AUSTRALIANA First Edition
“This is a rare view of a place that has changed and a time that will never be repeated – Broome in the 1920s and ’30s – told by Rosemary Hemphill, whose father owned one of the largest fleets of pearling luggers in Western Australia and whose mother longed for the genteel life she left behind in England. now in her early eighties, Rosemary writes about life in the arid frontier town that was filled with characters, stories and brilliant colours, and the contrasts of her later childhood in green England.”
3-270 p. : ill.,ports. ; 20 cm. #121122/290423/220724 (Name on fep., light age tanning.)
Hemphill, Rosemary — Childhood and youth. | Broome (W.A.) — Social life and customs.

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AuthorHemphill, Rosemary
Number of pages270
PublisherPan Macmillan, Sydney
Year Published2004
Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

Book Condition

Near Fine

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