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The Rush That Never Ended - Geoffrey Blainey

The Rush That Never Ended

A History of Australian Mining
Buch | Softcover
464 Seiten
2003
Melbourne University Press (Verlag)
978-0-522-85009-3 (ISBN)
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The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia's mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining history and records the tremendous influence that mining has had on its attitudes to unionism, religion, law and politics.
Forget about Ned Kelly and the bushrangers: for my money if you want a really romantic and exciting saga of Australia, take a look at our mining history. It's a turbulent, dramatic story with enough material for a bookshelf full of best-sellers ... a saga of tough men, iron-nerved gamblers, violence, death and glittering riches set against the backdrop of some of the most awful country on earth. And never has the story been better told than by Geoffrey Blainey.—Trevor Sykes
Australia is one of the world's great sources of mineral treasure. Out of the ground, on land and at sea, has come wealth to create a host of lucrative industries. Our landscape is littered with mines bearing evocative names like Rum Jungle, Noble's Nob, Broad Arrow and Siberia, and stories abound of fortunes won and lost.
The Rush That Never Ended tells the story of these mineral discoveries, describes the giants of Australia's mining history and records the tremendous influence that mining has had on Australia's attitudes to unionism, religion, law and politics.
The first edition of The Rush That Never Ended was a publishing sensation. It stayed on the best-seller lists for several months, and won the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. Reviewers described it as 'a compelling book', 'readable and exciting history', 'full of anecdotes and unforgettable characters'.
This classic history of Australian mining now appears in its fifth edition, updated to bring the story up to the twenty-first century.

In 2000 Professor Blainey received Australia's highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia. He taught at the University of Melbourne for many years, and chaired the Australia Council from 1977 to 1981. He has written over thirty books, including A Short History of the World, The Tyranny of Distance, The Triumph of the Nomads and The Peaks of Lyell.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.3.2003
Verlagsort Carlton
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 234 mm
Gewicht 710 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Technik Bergbau
ISBN-10 0-522-85009-X / 052285009X
ISBN-13 978-0-522-85009-3 / 9780522850093
Zustand Neuware
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