Ghosts of Gold (eBook)

The Life and Times of Jupiter Mosman

Marji Hill (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
129 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-0-6454834-7-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Gold! Hidden Stories of Australia's Past, Book 4 Ghosts of Gold: The Life and Times of Jupiter Mosman is the story of First Nations man who discovered gold at Charters Towers in North Queensland, Australia. Marji Hill, author of more than 70 publications, tells: * How the discovery of gold at Charters Towers in the years 1872 to 1917 became Australia's largest high-grade gold producer. * About Jupiter Mosman, his life, his experience with discrimination and injustice, and his final years. * How the land of opportunity on the northern frontier was taken over by British pastoralists and miners. * About the meaning of the policy of "e;dispersal"e;and its associated campaign of frontier violence against First Nations people. * About the birth of Charters Towers, some of its stories, epic overland cattle drives, and the work of drovers like Jupiter Mosman. If you relish the uncovering of hidden stories, iconic episodes or truth-telling to do with Australia's past, then this beautifully illustrated book and the others in the series are for you.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Gold! Hidden Stories of Australia's Past
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Australian Aboriginal books • Australian Aboriginal history • Australian Aborigines • Australian goldfield stories • Australian gold stories • Australia's Indigenous people • Books about gold in Australia • Books on Indigenous Australians • Charters Towers goldfield • Discovery of gold in Australia • First Nations stories Australia • First Nations true stories • First Nations truth-telling • gold and Aboriginal Australians • history of Aboriginal Australian people • history of gold in Australia • Indigenous Australia books • Indigenous Australian history • Indigenous Australians • Indigenous Australian stories • Stories of Aboriginal heroes • Stories of Aboriginal people • stories of Australian Aboriginal people • Truth-telling in Australia
• ISBN-10: 0-6454834-7-8 / 0645483478
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6454834-7-5 / 9780645483475