The Gold Rush

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: WILLIAM HEINEMANN AUSTRALIA
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Reprint

Description: 497 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Australias incredible gold rushes of the mid- to late-1800s produced tremendous wealth and ensured the financial survival of the struggling Australian colonies. They also tripled the countrys small population, were the last nail in the coffin for convict transportation, subverted the hierarchical British class system, laid the foundations of the Australian egalitarian ethos, and stimulated the democratic ideas that led to the establishment of the nation of Australia. David Hill recreates this monumental turning point in Australias history using the diaries, journals, books, letters, official reports, Parliamentary enquiries, and newspaper reports of the time, along with his own master storytellers skill of bringing the past to life. From New South Wales and Victoria, up to Queensland and the Northern Territory, then down to Tasmania and across the great deserts of Western Australia, David Hill tracks the people and the huge gold discoveries that would forever change Australia.

ISBN: 9781864711301