Leaving California for the new goldfields of Australia, the narrator lands in Victoria and heads for the mines of Ballarat. On the road and in the diggings he meets snakes, kangaroos, solitary stockmen, bushrangers and police, and joins in the hard and dangerous life of the miners, in a long narrative drawn from Thomes’s own years in the colony.
A boisterous Victorian adventure of the gold rush; its portrayal of Aboriginal Australians reflects the attitudes of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.