Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 A Pearling Master's Journey : In the Wake of the Schooner Mist
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'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...' (Publisher's blurb)

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Lustre : Reflections on Pearling Sarah Yu , Bart Pigram , Maya Shioji , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 47 2015; (p. 251-261)
'THERE IS ANOTHER boom-and-bust resource industry in the West, one with a long and near-forgotten history. The exploitation and artistic use of the pearl shell Pinctada maxima, one of the largest and most lustrous nacre-producing bivalve shells found along the northern shores, is an ancient craft dating back over twenty thousand years. Its story is full of wonder, intrigue, romance and greed – yet to be fully appreciated in Australian history.' (Author's introduction)
Lustre : Reflections on Pearling Sarah Yu , Bart Pigram , Maya Shioji , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 47 2015; (p. 251-261)
'THERE IS ANOTHER boom-and-bust resource industry in the West, one with a long and near-forgotten history. The exploitation and artistic use of the pearl shell Pinctada maxima, one of the largest and most lustrous nacre-producing bivalve shells found along the northern shores, is an ancient craft dating back over twenty thousand years. Its story is full of wonder, intrigue, romance and greed – yet to be fully appreciated in Australian history.' (Author's introduction)
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