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Hector Holthouse Hector Holthouse i(A81580 works by)
Born: Established: 1915 Toowoomba, Toowoomba area, Darling Downs, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Ships in the Coral : Explorers, Wrecks and Traders of the Northern Australian Coast Hector Holthouse , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1976 Z1191327 1976 single work non-fiction

This is a comprehensive collection of factual tales of shipwrecks, cyclones, mutinies, the pearling and trepang industries, Aboriginal and Islander resistance, black-birding, hermits and renegades and other colourful events and people of the northern Australian coasts, with associated islands and reefs. The stories begin with legendary arrivals and sixteenth-century European landfalls on the Western Australian coast and end with increasing industrialisation and the beginnings of marine archaeology of the 1960s.
1 1 y separately published work icon S'pose I Die : The Story of Evelyn Maunsell Hector Holthouse , Evelyn Maunsell , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1973 Z1111915 1973 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Barrier Reef in Colour Hector Holthouse , Adelaide : Rigby , 1971 Z1118229 1971 single work picture book
1 1 y separately published work icon Up Rode the Squatter Hector Holthouse , 1970 Adelaide : Rigby Seal Books , 1974 Z1111529 1970 single work non-fiction
1 1 y separately published work icon River of Gold : The Story of the Palmer River Gold Rush Hector Holthouse , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z1361416 1967 single work non-fiction
1 Maroochy's Tears Still Fall Hector Holthouse , 1960 single work column
— Appears in: Walkabout , vol. 26 no. 9 1960; (p. 17-18)
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