Books

This informative book evokes a forgotten city of anti-aircraft guns, bomb shelters and troop carriers at Kissing Point. Photographs throughout the book bring life to the words and give readers glimpses of how things were in Townsville during WW2

This book investigates the goldfields of Cape River, Ravenswood and Charters Towers which assisted in the development of Townsville and formed two of the north’s biggest inland towns, Ravenswood and Charters Towers.

Helga Griffin’s book gives insight into issues that affected Townsvilleans in the first two decades of Townsville’s life. It is an informative study of the history of the town and its economy which was so dependent on the resource rich hinterland.

“The book is based on information from a 1911 diary kept by Georgina O”Brien who lost her husband of 6 weeks on the SS Yongala.”

Private Larry Low arrived in Korea the day before his 20th birthday and was killed in action just 55 days later. Larry’s letters home have survived. The book also provides a brief contextual history of 3 RAR’s formation and involvement in the “Forgotten War”.

This book tells the full story of James Morrill who at the age of 21 was shipwrecked 1000km from the north Queensland coast. Morrill lived for 17 years with the Birri-Gubba Bindal.

This is the fascinating story of North Queensland women who tirelessly devoted their lives to the service of others, but have largely been forgotten by the communities in which they lived and worked.

This book is a leisurely stroll through some of the fascinating aspects of the Queen City’s history since its settlement in 1864.

Townsville to 1884.

The stories of many early settlers and families are recorded in this book.

Traces the history of the Bohle’s development from rural to residential and considers the environmental and social changes that have occurred through settlement.

Station life on the Palmer River in the 1940s and 1950s.

Medication abuse in Australia.

Aboriginal labour in the North Queensland pastoral industry 1861-1897.

Letters 1873-78, Reminiscences, & Photographs 1873-91, of C.W. Bowly in North Queensland.

A history of electricity supply in North Queensland from 1897 to 1987.

A collection of experiences from around the north.

Essays on Australian regional and local history.

The Jumna immigrants of 1891.

Correspondence of Rebecca and George Cain, 1886 to 1877.

Aborigines of the Herbert Burdekin District, North Queensland. An ethnographic and archaeological Study.

A bush schoolmaster in Cape York Peninsula 1892-96.