Hilary Catherine Low

Broschiertes Buch

Pay Dirt: 'The Westland Goldfields', from the Diary of William Smart

Beschreibung

Presents the story of how payable gold was discovered in West Canterbury, and of claims to the government's rich gold reward. It tells how William Smart left Christchurch in 1862 to prospect for gold in the uncharted wilderness of the West Coast. Then, in 1887, long after the Canterbury government had granted another prospector the reward, he was provoked to write his own "history” of the early gold discoveries.

Autor

Hilary Low has a BA in English literature and a post-graduate diploma of librarianship from Victoria University. Her first book, Pushing His Luck, about the 1863 expedition across the Southern Alps by Henry Whitcombe and Jakob Lauper, was published by Canterbury University Press in 2010. She lives in Wellington, but her family roots are deep in Canterbury.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canterbury University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781927145753
• ISBN-10: 1927145759
• Artikelnr.: 45720765