Golden Raub. William's Story

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Sid Harta
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 427 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A biography of William Bibby engineer, innovator, gold miner and pioneer who became a legend in his time.Unmarked and forgotten graves, an old pickle jar, a stamp shoe worn to a slipper, abandoned mines in Victoria and remotest Queensland, floods and rebellion. All are stops and clues along the way as Victor Bibby treads in the footsteps of a gold mining pioneer to discover long-lost relatives and the truths about his own family. Bringing alive an historical account of life on the goldfields and events that made colonial history. A fascinating tale of a toolmaker from industrial England who created a new life in Australia as an engineer, innovator and gold miner before struggling against the odds to find fame and fortune as a mining pioneer in the Malayan jungle.

ISBN: 9781922086389