coolgardie_goldCoolgardie Gold

by Albert Gaston

ISBN 0 85905 400 4, 2007 reprint edition with new material soft cover, 141pp, illustrated, 200grams

$22.00 + POST


The discovery of gold at Coolgardie filled thousands of young men with eagerness to try their luck on the new field.

Gaston recalls the dust that was ever present, willy-willies, flies and ants in myriads, water bags, camel teams, summer heat, winter cold, typhoid, crowded hotel and bars.