Field Guide To Frogs Of Western Australia Fourth Edition

By M.J. Tyler and P. Doughty

A favourite WA Museum publication is available again.

Fully illustrated, this is a comprehensive guide for general and specialist readers, and for students; for anyone with an interest in Australia’s unique wildlife.

RRP $ 35.00

Field Guide To Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-East Asia Fourth Edition

By Gerald R Allen

The very long awaited reprint of this essential WA Museum publication! Updated and expanded, this edition will be one of Australia’s bestselling guide for anglers, divers and aquarium enthusiasts.

RRP $ 35.00

The Short Tragic, Life of Leo The Marsupial Lion

By John Long

A Children’s book by award-winning author and well-known palaeontologist John Long that tells of the remarkable discovery of a 500,000 year old fossil beneath the Nullarbor.

A Western Australian Museum publication.

RRP $AUS 24.95

Australasian Nature Photography (6th collection)

South Australian Museum

Australasian Nature Photography, the sixth ANZANG collection, presents more than 150 of the finest photographs submitted to the competion for 2009. Each photograph is accompanied by technical infromation as well as anecdotes about how the picture was taken, which will stimulate yet further interest in the flora and fauna, and their conservation, in the bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea.

RRP $39.95

(Also available is the ANZANG second collection 2005, on sale for just $5!)

Australian Minescapes

by Edward Burtynsky   

An outstanding large-format book of a collection of photographs by multi-awarded international photographer Edward Burtynsky. Following the success of the Australian Minescapes exhibition, FotoFreo and Edward Burtynsky donated the magnificent images from the exhibition to the WA Museum collection and the people of Western Australia.

A Western Australian Museum publication

RRP $55.95  Hardback large format (casebound)

Redemption Of A Slave Ship:

The James Matthews

Graeme Henderson

In 1807, the Atlantic slave trade was made illegal. However, over the next fifty years, millions of kidnapped Africans continued to be transported unwillingly to the sugar plantations of the New World. The James Matthews, a wreck discovered off Fremantle, had sailed under the name Don Francisco during those dark years of the illegal slave trade, and the wreck is the best known example of a slave ship from that time. Through meticulous research in Africa and the Americas, in London and Australia, the author tells not only the story of the ship, but those of its passengers, slaves, slave traders, immigrants and ships crew.

Contains colour photographs, illustrations, maps and diagrams.

A Western Australian Museum publication

RRP $45.00 Hardback (casebound)

Land Of Vision and Mirage:

Western Australia Since 1826

Geoffery Bolton

A concise, clear and informative history that puts Western Australia on the map!

lauded historian geoffery Bolton vividly narrates this long-awaited short history of Western Australia. From 1826 to the present, Land of Vision and Mirage covers the social, cultural, political and economic development of the most geographically isolated area in the world. While being both informative and analytical, the author's wry observations about western Australia's unique history will stimulate public debate.

RRP $34.95

Boom Town 2050:

Scenarios for a rapidly growing city

by Richard Weller

Boomtown 2050 is a timely and authoritative account of the numerous questions facing Perth's residents at the intersection of environmental affordance, urban form and public policy, and offers international audiences a compelling image of the use of design as a form of urban research. It should be requered reading for students of the city worldwide.

UWA Press

RRP $99.95 HB

Birds of the Greater South West Western Australia

Simon J Nevill

Perth publisher Simon Nevill is set to make a lot of local birdwatchers very happy with this latest publication. Covering a the region extending from Carnarvon in the north, and across to Kalgoorlie and Esperance in the south east, this guidebook is for both novices and those with more extensive knowledge of birding. Each bird entry has a photograph, the name (common and scientific), description of appearance and behaviour, feeding, nests, location, and similar species.

RRP $34.95

Geoheritage:

From global perspectives to local principles for conservation and planning

Margaret Brocx

This book describes geoconservation history and ideas, international initiatives, legislation and policy, management philosophy and practices, and places Australian endeavours into an international perspective. It is useful for the international public interested in Australia as well as Australian readers interested in the developing field of geoconservation. It is practical and concrete in it's approach with the aim to improve the management of Australian geodiversity so that it's geoheritage may be conserved for future generations.

RRP $49.95

1772: The French Annexation of New Holland

The Tale of Louis de Saint Alouarn

Phillipe Goddard and Tugdual de Kerros

The French-English rivalry in the 18th century set the backdrop for exploration in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The French Government decided to support an expedition that would solve the mystery of Terre Australes, restore the prestige of it's navy and equal Lieutenant James Cook's achievements. By 1770, James Cook had only proved that the 'Great South Land' would not be found in the fairly low latitudes of the Pacific.

In 1771, two young, ambitious, French naval officers and Breton nobles, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen and his second-in-command Louis de Saint Alouarn, were given permission by the King of France, Louis XV, to undertake a voyage to discover and claim in the name of France, Terre Australes.

Proudly published by the Western Australian Museum, 1772; The French Annexation of New Holland is a story of this epic voyage; a re-telling of a chapter of Australian history whose significance has failed to attract the recognition it deserves.

RRP $24.95

A Windswept Coast:

Western Australia's Maritime Heritage Between the Moore River and the Zuytdorp Cliffs

Shipwrecks 1629 - 1945

P and J Worsley and D Totty

An Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology, Special Publication No. 11

Published by the Western Australian Museum

RRP $34.95