Mates & Gold by N.K. Sligo (1990)

$33.00
Australia region Western Australia
Author N.K. Sligo
Barcode 9780859051958
ISBN 9780859051958
Format Books
Publisher Hesperian Press
Size 210 x 297 x 1mm
Weight (g) 340 g

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The greatest of the Western Australian 1890's gold rush reminiscences.

Mates & Gold tells of bush life in the Western Australian desert, dangerous journeys and lonely deaths by typhoid, thirst, murder, spearing and retributional massacre. Vast new goldfields, gold won - and lost. Of bush mates and memories of a life long past.Mates & Gold is an insight into the fortitude and humour with which the early prospectors faced the harshness ... Read More

The greatest of the Western Australian 1890's gold rush reminiscences.

Mates & Gold tells of bush life in the Western Australian desert, dangerous journeys and lonely deaths by typhoid, thirst, murder, spearing and retributional massacre. Vast new goldfields, gold won - and lost. Of bush mates and memories of a life long past.Mates & Gold is an insight into the fortitude and humour with which the early prospectors faced the harshness of the goldfields.

It is one of the few books on the great 1890s goldrush written by one of the original prospectors.

This is a great read.

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Australia region Western Australia
Author N.K. Sligo
Barcode 9780859051958
Isbn 9780859051958
Format Books
Publisher Hesperian Press
Size 210 x 297 x 1mm
Weight (g) 340 g

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