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The gold rush : the fever that forever changed Australia / David Hill.

By: Hill, David, 1946-Material type: Text

TextPublication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : William Heinemann, 2011, c2010Description: xiv, [497] p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 20 cmISBN: 9781864711301 (pbk.)Subject(s): Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History | Australia -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects | Australia -- Gold discoveries -- Economic aspects | Australia -- History -- 1851-1891DDC classification: 994.031 Summary: AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY: C 1750 TO C 1900. AUSTRALIAN. The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, threw off their previous pursuits and made the often perilous journey to the goldfields, from where they would return either fabulously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-473) and index.

AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY: C 1750 TO C 1900. AUSTRALIAN. The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, threw off their previous pursuits and made the often perilous journey to the goldfields, from where they would return either fabulously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all.

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