Drop into The Museum Shop to purchase books about local history.

Just email – loudounhouse@skymesh.com.au – or ring us (07) 40964020 with your order of books or Irvinebank products. We will email you back with a quote for your purchase including postage and package.

BOOKS FOR SALE

Angor to Zillmanton
by Colin Hopper
462 pages. The stories of North Queensland’s deserted towns. This book makes an excellent resource book it contains town maps, the names of landowners, a list of towns and camps. An Excellent book.
$95.00. + postage & handling

Barefoot through the Bindies
by Marion Houldsworth. 235 pages. A story about growing up in North Queensland in 1901. A joy to read.
$30.00 + postage & handling

 

Failure of Justice
an Eacham Historical Society Publication
This long awaited second edition of the Irvinebank Massacre is a true and intriguing story of the murder of innocent aborigines by Troopers of the Queensland Native Police.
$15.00 + postage & handling

John Moffat of Irvinebank
by Ruth S. Kerr
296 pages. The complete history of John Moffat and Irvinebank.
$40.00 + postage & handling.

  

Plants of Tropical North Queensland and Plants of Cape York.
by John Beasley
Compact guide with lots of information in a back-pack size book. Identifying plants using photographs and vegetation zones. This books are for everyone interested in the plants of Far North Queensland.
$25.00 each. + postage & handling

 

Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland
A Queensland Museum publication. 368 pages. A guide to the wildlife of North Queensland.
$35.00 + postage & handling

             ALAS IT SEEMS CRUEL. by Peter Bell. The story on the Mount Mulligan coal mine disaster of 1921. $30 plus postage & handling.

                         North Queensland Deserted Towns by Colin Hooper. $45.00 each plus P&H.

      Irvinebank State School Centenary by Isabel Owen. $5.00 plus P&H.

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Irvinebank Post Cards available at Museum Shop from $1.50 each

 

BACK O’CAIRNS by Ion Idriess. Reflections on life prospecting in Far North Qld from 1912-14. $35.00 plus postage and handling

A BEND TOO MANY Eacham Historical Society

Story of the Gillies

$17.00 plus postage and handling

THE CURSE OF MUNGANA David E Moore

The scandal and resulting Royal Commission

$35.00 plus postage and handling

THE KOKODA TRAIL Stuart Hawthorne

A history, providing the first complete account of the jungle track

$30.00 plus postage and handling

TALES FROM BUSH GRAVES Anne Alloway and Roberta Morrison

Stories from lonely graves in the Hughenden district

$35.00 plus postage and handling

THE ONLY WAY HOME Liz Byron

Cooktown south along Bicentennial National Trail with two donkeys

$30.00 plus postage and handling

HERBERTON HOTELS Colin Purchase

History of Herberton and district Hotels

$27.00 plus postage and handling

IRVINEBANK HOTELS Colin Purchase

History of Irvinebank and district Hotels

$27.00 plus postage and handling

SNAKES OF TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND Qld Mus.

Photographic guide to snakes of this and northern regions.

Museum of Queensland

$17.00 plus postage and handling

TINFIELD MEMORIES

A three volume history series of writings and reminiscences told by mining men covering the areas of Tinaroo, Stannary Hills, Watsonville, Bakerville, Montalbion, Emuford, Nymbool, Gurrumbah, Emu Creek, California creek, Koorboora, Muldiva, Tate, Coolgarra, Mount Garnet, Silver Valley and environs 1882 to 1950.

Originally compiled by Glenville Pike and edited by Peta O’Connor

$27.00 each plus potage and handling