TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hill,David
TI  - The gold rush: the fever that forever changed Australia 
SN  - 9781864711301 (pbk.)
U1  - 994.031 22
PY  - 2011///, c2010
CY  - North Sydney, N.S.W.
PB  - William Heinemann
KW  - Gold mines and mining
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Gold discoveries
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - 1851-1891
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-473) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -