WHERE FORTUNES LAY: A Personal Story of the Birth of Kalgoorlie
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This is a personal, first hand story of an adventurous young man's search for fortune in the vast, dry interior of Australia in the 1890's. Alick Macgeorge, an Adelaide mining engineer who was one of the first to take the challenge of the gold rush to what became Kalgoorlie, wrote his story in the
1940s. He died in Melbourne in 1953, at the age of 83, with the unpublished manuscript among his papers. Now his youngest son, Michael, born in Melbourne in 1926, has brought the story to life, just a century after the historic events it relates. Trade paperback, pictorial card covers. 215 x 140mm., pp. xiii (preliminaries), 173, black & white plates, appendix, bibliography, index. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, no reading creases on spine. NEAR FINE. * * SORRY, this BOOK is NOT in OUR SALE * *
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