Fascinating Accounts
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Of The Goldfields
THE Australian gold rush era of last century was as colourful as the rushes on the Klondike, or Cali fornia, and some of the adventure of it rubs off in Gold Fever, a col lection of accounts, some only a few words long, written by men and women who worked or observed the Australian goldfields between 1851 and the 1890 s, Together, the stories give an in sight into the comic, heroic or vil lainous human stories of the dig gings. The scope is wide, from Bendigo, in Victoria, to Cooktown, in northern Queensland. Many of the stories have not been published before and thus we have some gen uine Australiana, Edited by Nancy Keesing, the book contains many contemporary drawings of the goldfields, and, of the miners themselves. Fascinating, valuable. —K McG. (GOLD FEVER. Angus and Robertson. $6.75.)