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Price List for Publications Available for Sale
(as of 30 June 2009)

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Title

Author

Description

RRP

 

$

Watermelon and Custard  

Joyce Higgins

Memories of Boarding School at ST Bernard,Herberton

29.00

Separatism in Townsville

Christine Doran

The separate state issue in Townsville from 1884 to 1894

15.00

From Bush to Station

Dawn May

Aboriginal labour in the North Queensland pastoral industry 1861-1897

11.00

Gateway to a Golden Land

Dorothy Gibson-Wilde

Townsville to 1884

15.00

Topsawyers

Cathie May

The Chinese in Cairns 1870 to 1920

15.00

Well Beaten Paths

Helen Brayshaw

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

16.00

Partner in Progress

Christine Doran

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

11.00

No Swank Here

Todd Barr

The development of the Whitsundays as a tourist destination to the early 1970s

12.00

Sotto La Croce del Sud (Under the Southern Cross)

F. Galassi

The Jumna immigrants of 1891

11.00

A Cup of Tea a Bex and a Good Lie Down

Eileen Hennessey

Medication abuse in Australia

15.00

White Australia Defied

Patricia Mercer

Pacific Islander settlement in North Queensland

18.00

Letters from Laura

Frances Mackeith Editor

A bush schoolmaster in Cape York Peninsula 1892-96

11.00

Townsville 1888

Gibson-Wilde and Dalton

A collection of annotated photographs

18.00

A Christmas Card in April

John Illingsworth

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

16.00

News from Nulla

Edited by BJ Dalton

Correspondence of Rebecca and George Cain, 1886 to 1877

10.00

The Bowly Papers

Edited by Anne Smith & B. J. Dalton

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

22.00

Race Relations in North Queensland

Edited by Henry Reynolds

A collection of experiences from around the north

16.00

Gold Iron and Steam 

Peter Bell

The industrial archaeology of the Palmer Goldfield

12.00

Peripheral Visions

Edited by B.J. Dalton

Essays on Australian regional and local history.

16.00

Health and Healing

Editors Roy MacLeod & Donald Denoon

Health issues in tropical Australia and Papua New Guinea

11.00

Labour in the South Pacific

Edited by Clive Moore, Jaqueline Leckie and Doug Munro

A collection of essays

16.00

Discovering Australasia

Edited by Reynaldo C. Ileto & Rodney Sullivan

Essays on Philippine- Australian interactions

11.00

Tropical Odyssey

Joan Innes Reid with Ros Thorpe

A pioneer social worker in North Queensland

5.00

Fifty Years in North Queensland with peeps into Papua 1890 to 1940

“Tramp”

Clippings from articles written by Charles Alfred Jenkinson

15.00

Caged

Geoff Hansen & Diane Menghetti

The first half century of the Magnetic Island to Townsville Swim.

18.00

Telling Townsville

Writers in Townsville Society Inc

Anecdotes of Townsville People

15.00

The Battle of the Coral Sea

B.J. Dalton

Chronology of the battle from 1 to 8 May 1942

2.00

 

 

book cover-caged

cost: $18
To purchase this book please contact the museum.
Geoff Hansen and Diane Menghetti, Caged: The First Half Century of the Magnetic Island to Townsville Swim, Townsville Museum & Historical Society, Townsville, 2004.

Geoff Hansen and Diane Menghetti, Caged is the story of a major Townsville sporting event. The swimming race from Magnetic Island to Townsville harbour began in 1954 when three young men competed as part of Townsville's celebration of a visit by Queen Elizabeth and her consort.

During the next fifty years distance swimmers from all over Australia (including some of the champions of the 1960s) competed. They swam in cages to ward off shark attacks - hence the name of this book.

At some times in the history of the race the event was the centrepiece of spectacular carnivals. At others, the swim was an isolated, though always well supported, festival.

This book tells the story of the competitors and volunteers who have kept this unique sporting event alive for half a century.

We are currently building up a comprehensive catalogue of works on North Queensland