The much-travelled battered black metal
trunk, a legacy of many voyages, had not
been opened for forty years and lay sitting
on four bricks at the back of the dusty
cellar... The heavy brass Yale padlock,
fully two and a quarter inches wide, was
tarnished and the type favoured by
mariners a century earlier. It yielded
noiselessly to the key and a little
lubrication. The white steel hasp was pried
free, and the steel bar slid back from the
staples with some protest... dusty parcel
lay between the folded khaki trousers and
tunic of a soldier of the Great War. The
black and faded creamy yellow shoulder
patches has lost the freshness of colour
of that time, but the brass letter A was
prominent. Inside was an octavo-sized photo album with a frayed and faded green cover. The photographs looked of professional quality...
- Prologue
- H.D. Norman
- The Pearling Industry
- Birth of a Lugger, Death of a Diver
- The Economics of Pearling
- Mutiny on the Ethel, murder on the Mist
- The Broome Riot of 1920
- The Japanese Doctor
- Letters from the front, Gallipoli, Sinai and France
- Tropical Cyclones and Willy Willies
- A Pearler's Wife
- The Royal Flying Doctor Service, Broome
- Broome Air Raid and Carnot Bay - 1942
- Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Index
A Pearling Master's Journey by J.E. deB Norman & G.V. Norman
Book ISBN: 9 7809803581 0 0