The Master Pearler’s Daughter: Memories of My Broome Childhood by Rosemary Hemphill

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition. Pages have sunned.

This is a rare view of a place that has changed and a time that will never be repeated - Broome in the 1920s and 30s, told by Rosemary Hemphill, whose father owned one of the largest fleets of pearling luggers in Western Australia and whose mother longed for the genteel life she left behind in England.

Rosemary writes about life in the arid frontier town, filled with characters, stories, and brilliant colours, and the contrast with her later childhood in green England. (book flap)