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Gold
Murphy, Matt2025
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Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward Hammond Hargraves'. Hargraves has for decades (and decades) received the fame, fortune and adulation from all corners of the country, but did he earn it? What about the two diggers he met on the Californian goldfields who told him where to look when he returned to Australia? What about the guys who led him to where they'd heard gold had been found before? What about the pioneers whose discoveries had been documented years earlier? This is the story of an oversized layabout who received years of accolades and free lunches, despite lumbering from one embarrassment to the next, and of those who spent decades trying to expose him and seek their share of the glory.
Main title:
Gold / by Matt Murphy.
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2025.
Collation:
306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Variant title:
Gold the remarkable story of Edward Hammond Hargraves - charlatan, impostor and self-proclaimed discoverer of gold in Australia
Notes:
The remarkable story of Edward Hammond Hargraves-charlatan, imposter and self-proclaimed discoverer of gold in Australia--Cover.Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Before the discoveryThe discovery and its consequencesThe discovery of gold in VictoriaHargraves on tourThe aftermath.
ISBN:
9780733343858 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994.03BIOGRAPHY
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
523268
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | BIOGRAPHY HARG | Onloan - Due: 28 May 2025 |