The things that happen!

My Honours thesis that focused on Warrawagine Station

The other request was from an Anton von Sierrakowski who was chasing the Russell Timms who had Warrawagine Station in the East Pilbara in the 1970s. Anton had spent some time there, including a muster, and would like to get in contact with them. I searched the white pages and came up with two R. Timms in Perth. One is a Russell, so left my request on the answering service and hope its who Anton wants! I studied the Station records and work books of Timms time on Warrawagine, and this was part of my Honours thesis and later  doctoral thesis - The Historical Geography of Six Major River Basins in the North West of Western Australia since Pastoral Occupation. Hmmm, universities always like their long titles!

   

Some people read my blog and contacted me on my email. I was never more astonished in my life. Okay then. What did they want. Well, they were voices from the past, my writing past. The first was a little lady from New Zealand, Lee Cleaver who is much interested in purchasing my work Eastward to the Avon. Ron Giblett had some copies left over I know a few years back, but unfortunately they all have been sold. As Ron had been a naughty boy, laying claim to have written the book when he never put word to paper, only provided most of the genealogy and other historical data except related to the good ship Success, which I found, I had to contact Copyright Council to sort it all out. Cheeky man using someone else's hard work for his own gratification. No doubt because of that, Ron doesn't want to speak  to me, but Lee wants a book, hard copy hopefully, but as that is not to be, I can copy my own copy of the book for her.

Eastward to the Avon, publisher Ron Giblett

So I have included the cover of the book here and the title page! Just so that I can prove I did write this, Copyright Council did request an acknowledgement of my work. I waived receiving any part of the book sales, leaving that for the Giblett family. And the things that happen? I couldn't get the books to locate the way I wanted them in this poast. Darn!

Title page of Eastward to the Avon