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Perth: Hesperian Press. 1980. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. Spine sunned. Covered in clear adhesive film by previous owner. Previous owner's name to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 165 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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MATES AND GOLD. Reminiscences of Early Westralian Goldfields 1890-1896 Paperback - 1980
by Sligo, N.K
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- Title MATES AND GOLD. Reminiscences of Early Westralian Goldfields 1890-1896
- Author Sligo, N.K
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Hesperian Press, Victoria Park
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780859050241
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Mates and Gold: Reminiscences of the Early Westralian Goldfields 1890 - 1896.
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Perth, Victoria Park: Hesperian Press, 1980. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos & maps at rear, frontispiece black & white portrait, spine little faded, minor edgewear. 165 pp. N. K. Sligo, a prospector, writes an insight into the fortitude and humour with which the early prospectors faced the harshness of the Western Australian goldfields. It is one of the few books on the great 1890s goldrush written by one of the original prospectors. He describes the workings of his two productive gold mines. The detailed information on gold recoveries in the book will be of interest and importance to current prospectors. The is book is based on an unpublished manuscript found in two State Libraries.
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Hesperian Press, 1980. Softcover. Very Good. MINING West Australiana Maps and b&w illusts. #101214/0119/0121/110122/071222 viii, 165 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm. First Edition. Goldmining Includes descriptions of the gold prospectors' relations with and attitudes towards the Aboriginal population with whom they were often in conflict.Sligo, N.K. (Norman Kenneth), 1866-1941.  |  Gold deposits. Prospecting. Western Australia. Personal observations  |  Gold mines and mining -- Western Australia -- History -- 19th century.  |  Prospecting -- Western Australia -- History -- 19th century.  |  Gold miners -- Western Australia -- Biography.  |  History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous.  |  Mining industry - Gold.  |  Race relations - Attitudes.  |  Western Australia -- History -- 1829-1900.  |  Kalgoorlie map area (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09)  |  Coolgardie (SE WA Goldfields…
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