The story of gold in Australia is full of fascinating people and places, adventurers and dangers, successes and failures. From the 1850s, when people first left homes and jobs to find their fortunes on distant goldfields, the search for gold has affected the life and landscape of Australia in many ways.
Find out about:
. the gold rushes
. alluvial mining
. working conditions
. problems and solutions
. life on the goldfields
. the big nuggets
. building
. health and hygiene
. food and cooking
. women and children
. Chinese miners
. law and order
. Eureka Stockade
. quartz mining
. Lasseter's Reef
. environmental impact
. and much more.
- ISBN13 9781863737869
- Publish Date 1 November 1995 (first published 1 October 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 December 2009
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Allen & Unwin
- Imprint A&U Children
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English