The White Divers of Broome, 1st Edition
The True Story of a Fatal Experiment
$34.39
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
Summary
In 1912 Broome was as much Asian as Australian, filled with the smell of unfamiliar spices and a babel of competing languages. The town thrived on the hugely profitable, and extremely dangerous pearl shell industry, where Asian labour was cheap to hire, and easy to replace. It was a frontier town, where racial tensions simmered uneasily between whites, Asians and Aborigines.
In that year, twelve British Royal Navy-trained divers and their tenders were sent to Broome, urged on by a Fed…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330363389 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0330363387 |
| Author: | John Bailey |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Pan Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
John Bailey
John Bailey has been a barrister in Melbourne, a public servant in Papua-New-Guinea, and a teacher in England. He now lives adjacent to the Queensland border in northern New South Wales.
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