Not Your Usual Gold Stories: The background to the Australian gold rushes

by Peter Macinnis

All Australian children are given an account of the chase for gold in Australia that runs like this: Nobody knew there was gold in Australia, Edward Hammond Hargraves discovered gold in New South Wales in 1851, and then the rushes began.This is false history. The first claim of a 'gold mine' was a fraud in 1788; the first real gold find was in 1824; the first working gold mine was in South Australia in 1843; a shepherd, Hugh M'Gregor regularly sold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198309207X
• ISBN13: 9781983092077
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"